Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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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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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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 have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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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 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 had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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