If a man wishes
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. Friedrich Nietzsche
Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness. Frederick Lenz
An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. Franz Kafka
Adam’s first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. Franz Kafka
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell. Francis Bacon
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. Francis Bacon
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and … Read more
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren … Read more