"Whether a belief is considered to be a……" — Anthony Storr
"Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it."
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32 Quotes by Anthony Storr
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and…
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All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
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The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen…
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all…
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The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse…
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In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it…
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of…
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It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also…
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Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult…
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his…
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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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