I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
JOHN FORBES NASHI 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.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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 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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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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 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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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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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