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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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 had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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 have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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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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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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 know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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