If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped…

- Devdutt Pattanaik

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

- Devdutt Pattanaik

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

- Devdutt Pattanaik

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on In…

- Devdutt Pattanaik

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In In…

- Devdutt Pattanaik