Anthony Storr (18 May 192017 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.

Quotes

Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1996, 1997)

  • 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)
  • 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.
    • Chapter 7 "The Jesuit and Jesus" (p. 144)
  • 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.
    • Chapter 7 "The Jesuit and Jesus" (p. 147)
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