“Is he dangerous?
“Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.”
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 485).
“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.”
As quoted in "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders his 'Problem Child." (7 January 2006)
Context: It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
“Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.”
Source: Goddess of Spring
“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
“Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.”
Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5; also quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43
Context: It is the failing of a certain literature to believe that life is tragic because it is wretched.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live. And M. Sartre's hero does not perhaps give us the real meaning of his anguish when he insists on those aspects of man he finds repugnant, instead of basing his reasons for despair on certain of man's signs of greatness.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.
“…live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.”
My New York Misadventure, The Daily Mail, 4 and 5 January 1932
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol IV, Churchill at Large, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 94. ISBN 0903988453
The 1930s
“It is a cowardice to not move forward in opportunity. We cannot live in a life devoid of danger.”
जूवा (Gambling)
