"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."

Religion, Faith, Opposition, Conflict

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"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."

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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

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