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

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.”

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

“Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety.”

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

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

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