I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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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 would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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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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 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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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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