Full Idea
The secret of harvesting the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from existence is: live dangerously!
Gist of Idea
The best life is the dangerous life
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay (Joyful) Science [1882], §283)
A Reaction
I treasured this quotation when I was 17, but failed to live up to it.
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.167