The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
JOHN FORBES NASHThe man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
JOHN FORBES NASHRationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASHStatistically, 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHI have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASHClasses will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
JOHN FORBES NASHThough 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHThis began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
JOHN FORBES NASHI 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHPeople are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
JOHN FORBES NASHI had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
JOHN FORBES NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
JOHN FORBES NASHThus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
JOHN FORBES NASH