Anthony Storr Quote

I am a man nothing human is alien to me.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.

The voice is a second signature.

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.

I am mortal born to love and to suffer.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid...