A new heaven means you've found what's wrong with the old one, your experience has taken you to the depths of this world (ie hell) to allow you to truly see its faults, evils and the need for change. If you never experience your own hell, you never find the motivation to build up a new and better world.
Basically- if you're content with life the way it is, you're not going to go through the pain, trouble and work of re-inventing yourself and/or the world around you. You first need the wake-up call that tells you life is not as it should be, there are grievous injustices and wrongs in the world or in yourself that you can't ignore once you've glimpsed them. You see the possibility of the world as it would be in hell- you take those flaws to their logical conclusions and realize that if you don't change something you'll be in the hell you envision.
Fairly simple concept really- that's why people dedicate themselves to one cause or another- veganism, passive resistance, pro-life, medical research etc. They see the faults and the flaws, they see where the world COULD go (their own version of hell) and they decide they must act to build a different future (heaven).
Of course, this is my take on it and as a lit student I'm well aware that there are as many interpretations of a theory as there are readers.
i THINK he means that after going through hell they find the strength to build heaven.but then again,it's nieztche,so what robotic said fits better with him
Basically, the same thing as the saying: "Contentment is the enemy of invention".
If your life is "okay" already, you have no motivation to try and make it better (and doing so risks making it worse).
On the other hand, if your life sucks, you have a strong motivation to think about what would make you really happy, and to work hard to make it happen - and you have nothing to lose by trying.
Everyone who has created an awesome life for himself found the strength to do so by experiencing great pain/suffering first. It's probably related to Nietzsche's idea of 'the will to power'.
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This is my interpretation:
One can come up with one's own creation or one's own good, from the torments--of various nature--he goes through in his life.
The only way anyone ever tried to make things better, was because they were in the sh*t first.
A modern version was used by George Clooney in Up in The Air when he said "Anyone who has ever built an empire or created something has sat where you are today" (Referring to the place of the person who is being laid off)
Hmmm well ill take a stab at it.
I think its saying that people only build or make up a heaven because they have made their own hell first... maybe. its suggesting that hell was invented or made up before heaven was.
It means that someone who builds can have power.
ummm you just asked this...
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