16 Quotes by John Forbes Nash

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

I’ve made the most important discovery of my life. It’s only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

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.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.