I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.Read
The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.
Interpretation
Nash suggests that he valued both supernatural and mathematical ideas equally, indicating a deep connection between imagination and logic.
In this quote, John Forbes Nash, Jr. reflects on the nature of his thoughts regarding supernatural beings, equating the processes through which he conceptualized them to his mathematical ideas. This statement emphasizes the legitimacy and significance he attributes to all forms of thought, whether they pertain to the mystical or the analytical, highlighting the interplay between fantasy and rationality in human creativity and understanding.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the intersection of science and art.
I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.
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.
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: Godβs revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.
The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.
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