From On the Afterworldly

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was the sick and decaying who despised body and earth and invented the heavenly

realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy

poisons from body and earth.  They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars

were too far for them.  So they sighed: "Would that there were heavenly ways to sneak

into another state of being and happiness!"  Thus they invented their sneaky ruses and

bloody poisons.  Ungrateful, these people deemed themselves transported from their

bodies and this earth.  But to whom did they owe the convulsions and raptures of their

transport?  To their bodies and this earth.