Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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 think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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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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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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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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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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