I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
JOHN FORBES NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
JOHN FORBES NASHPeople are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
JOHN FORBES NASHThe man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
JOHN FORBES NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
JOHN FORBES NASHHowever 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHThis began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
JOHN FORBES NASHClasses will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
JOHN FORBES NASHGradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
JOHN FORBES NASHRationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
JOHN FORBES NASHI have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASHNowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
JOHN FORBES NASHTo some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
JOHN FORBES NASHI later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
JOHN FORBES NASH