I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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 would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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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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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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