It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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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 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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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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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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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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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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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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