Who said that? Quote help please.

Factual Questions
1

Wikiquote and the other sites I’ve tried aren’t producing the answer. I remember a quote that went something along the lines of;
“If you need a hero, you have diminished yourself in some way”*
at least that’s the closest I’ve got with Google.

I’d really appreciate if anyone can tell me the exact quote, or attributed source.

  • (from what I recall, the exact quote had ‘placing someone on a pedestal’, rather than needing a hero.)

Thanks in advance.

2

All I can find is this lady on deviantART who uses it as her sig.

3

Yep, I found that too.

She’s paraphrased the original - darn her to heck!

4

Well, I found it, if anyone cares. ParallelPam on DeviantART was closer than I was.

It’s from Sheldon B Kopp’s An Eschatological Laundry List*

and the exact quote is;

Thanks for your try though, Really Not All That Bright.

5

I remember that list. Someone made a thread about it here. I printed the list off and taped it to my locker for most of my senior year of high school. Some of those statements don’t go over well in a catholic high school, FYI. But all the teachers could get behind 41. You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

6

It’s printed in the back of: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him.

I always thought 33 was one to remember. “All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.”