To 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 NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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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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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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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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