“‘They have all become pious again, they are praying, they are mad!’ he said, and he was amazed beyond measure. And indeed, all these higher men, the two kings, the retired pope, the wicked magician, the voluntary beggar, the wanderer and shadow, the old sooth-sayer, the conscientious in spirit, and the ugliest man— they were all kneeling like children and devout little old women and adoring the ass.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra