Anthony Storr citations

Anthony Storr était un auteur et psychiatre britannique. Né à Londres, étant enfant il dut endurer le lourd traumatisme des internats au début du XXe siècle. Il a été éduqué à Winchester, Christ's College, l'Université de Cambridge et au Westminster Hospital. Il obtient son diplôme de doctorat en 1944, et se spécialise en psychiatrie. Storr était connu pour ses portraits psychanalytiques et ses figures historiques.

Storr se marie deux fois, avec Catherine Cole en 1942 et avec l'écrivain Catherine Peters en 1970 après le premier mariage qui a fini en divorce. Wikipedia

✵ 18. mai 1920 – 17. mars 2001

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Anthony Storr: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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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”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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

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