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.
JOHN FORBES NASHRationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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There 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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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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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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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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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