Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (ed. Vintage, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307434173