Quotes About Risk

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. (One can as well fall into height as into depth)

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher—as it seems to us, my friends?—lives 'unphilosophically' and 'unwisely,' above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game.

We have forsaken the land and gone to sea! We have destroyed the bridge behind us – more so, we have demolished the land behind us! Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean; it is true, it does not always roar, and at times it lies there like silk and gold and dreams of goodness. But there will be hours when you realize that it is infinite and that there is nothing more awesome than infinity.

Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk.

One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape

For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!

From the practice of wise men.—To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301

We are conducting an experiment with truth! Perhaps mankind will perish because of it! Fine!

Glaubt es mir - das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heisst: gefährlich leben.

the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge!…(283).

Advocates of truth.?Truth is least likely to find advocates not when it is dangerous to speak the truth, but when it is boring to do so.

Brave people are persuaded to an action when it is represented as more dangerous than it is.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death.