“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"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."
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos."
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"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."
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives."
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
“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.”
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"The constitutional structure of the authority behind the euro is of the “paper money” character in that nothing is really guaranteed as far as the value of the euro is concerned. But this is typical of all currencies used in the world nowadays."
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"it cannot be irrelevant whether or not the future quality of a currency is really assured or whether instead that it depends on the shifting sands of political decisions or the possibly arbitrary actions of a bureaucracy of officials."
― John Nash (1928-2015)
"we are always exchanging, mediated by money transfers, the differing fruits of our varied forms of labor."
― John Nash (1928-2015)