“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”

“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.”

“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 soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!”

“Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist'...I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God...”

“So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!”

“Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.”