Anthony Storr Quotes

Anthony Storr was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author.

✵ 18. May 1920 – 17. March 2001

Anthony Storr: 5 quotes1 like

Famous Anthony Storr Quotes

“In 20th-century England, an individual announcing that he was the son of God and would return after death in glory would probably attract psychiatric attention; but earlier generations might have regarded such claims as unsurprising.”

Source: Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1996, 1997), Chapter 7 "The Jesuit and Jesus" (p. 144)

“One man's faith is another man's delusion”

“Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.”

“Few subsequent gurus seem to have matched the simplicity and directness of Jesus′s message; but it must be remembered that we have very little information. If the world had possessed a detailed biographical account of Jesus, an authentic picture of what he was like as a man, it is quite possible that Christianity would not have been estabished as a world religion.”

Source: Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1996, 1997), Chapter 7 "The Jesuit and Jesus" (p. 147)

“In other words, gurus generalize from their own experience. Some gurus are inclined to believe that all humanity should accept their vision: others allege that, when the last trump sounds, their own followers will be saved, whilst the majority of mankind will remain unredeemed. This apparently arrogant assumption is closely connected with certain features of personality displayed by a variety of gurus.”

Introduction (p. XII–XIII)
Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1996, 1997)

Similar authors

M. Scott Peck photo

M. Scott Peck26

American psychiatrist None

Viktor E. Frankl photo

Viktor E. Frankl64

Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust surviv… None

C.G. Jung photo

C.G. Jung257

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… None

Axel Munthe photo

Axel Munthe15

Swedish physician None

Jerome K. Jerome photo

Jerome K. Jerome87

English humorist None

John Galsworthy photo

John Galsworthy48

English novelist and playwright None

Aldous Huxley photo

Aldous Huxley290

English writer None

Virginia Woolf photo

Virginia Woolf382

English writer None

Richard Aldington photo

Richard Aldington5

English writer and poet None

Terry Pratchett photo

Terry Pratchett796

English author None