Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.”
Source: Being and Nothingness (1943), p. 237, 1998 edition
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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980Related quotes
 
                            
                        
                        
                        
                                        
                                        Living, Loving, and Learning  (1982) 
Variant: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. 
Source: Living Loving and Learning 
Context: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
                                    
Source: Debating Procreation: Is It Wrong To Reproduce? (2015), p. 65
 
                            
                        
                        
                        “If the life of a beloved woman—whether romantic partner or mother—is at risk, his life is at risk.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 241
 
        
     
                             
                            