This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
JOHN FORBES NASHBut the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
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But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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