It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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 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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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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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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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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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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