THINKING EVIL MEANS MAKING EVIL. The passions become evil and insidious when they are considered evil and insidious. Thus Christianity has succeeded in turning Eros and Aphrodite-great powers, capable of idealization-into hellish goblins....In themselves the sexual feelings, like those of pity and adoration, are such that one human being thereby gives pleasure to another human being through his delight; one does not encounter such beneficent arrangements too frequently in nature. And to slander just a one and to corrupt it through bad conscience!! To associate the procreation of man with bad conscience!!
In the end this transformation of Eros into a devil wound up as a comedy: gradually the"devil" Eros became more interesting to men than all the angels and saints, thanks to the whispering and the secret-mongering of the church in all erotic manners: this has had the effect, right into our own time, of making the love story the only real interest shared by all circles- in an exaggeration which would have been incomprehensible in antiquity and which will yet be laughed at someday..... Nietzche-The Dawn.
In the end this transformation of Eros into a devil wound up as a comedy: gradually the"devil" Eros became more interesting to men than all the angels and saints, thanks to the whispering and the secret-mongering of the church in all erotic manners: this has had the effect, right into our own time, of making the love story the only real interest shared by all circles- in an exaggeration which would have been incomprehensible in antiquity and which will yet be laughed at someday..... Nietzche-The Dawn.