
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Eric Stanley on CBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYrWGivy5A
2011
Part One, chapter 5, page 27
Why Government Doesn't Work (1995)
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)