It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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Nowadays 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.
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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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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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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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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
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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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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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Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
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