(1)
Pullman: a
Republlic
of Heaven
'We have to be all those difficult things
like cheerful and kind and curious and
brave and patient, and we've got to study
and think, and work hard, all of us,
in all our different worlds,
and then we'll build...
The republic of heaven.'
—Philip Pullman,
§.38 The Botanic Garden
(2)
Nietzsche: a
Kingdom of
Earth
'But now leave this nursery, my own cave,
where today all childishness is at home.
Come outside and cool your overheated
child's exuberance and heart's noise!
To be sure: except ye become as little children,
ye shall not enter into that Kingdom of Heaven...
But then we do not want to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven at all:
we have become men—
and so we want the
Kingdom of Earth.'
—Friedrich Nietzsche,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra—
A Book for Everyone and Nobody,
Fourth and Last Part,
18. The Ass Festival, §.2
Thus Spoke Zarathustra—
A Book for Everyone and Nobody,
Fourth and Last Part,
18. The Ass Festival, §.2