“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

Last update Oct. 1, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice." by Friedrich Nietzsche?
Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Friedrich Nietzsche 655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

Related quotes

Carrie Fisher photo

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking

Anne Lamott photo

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

T.D. Jakes photo
Ed Harcourt photo
Anne Sexton photo

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Saul Bellow photo

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

Source: Herzog

Leo Tolstoy photo
Jonathan Swift photo

“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Letter to Bolingbroke (March 21, 1729); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Related topics