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.
JOHN FORBES NASHI later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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 had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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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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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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