Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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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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 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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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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 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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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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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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