Eternal truth in this-
The exact quote where Friedrich Nietzsche says “live dangerously” comes from his book The Gay Science (German: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft), published in 1882. In Book IV, section 283, Nietzsche writes:
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
This passage encapsulates Nietzsche’s exhortation to embrace risk and challenge as a means to achieve the fullest experience of life.