Devdutt Pattanaik quote: "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 me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?"

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of bei...
NATAN SHARANSKY

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preser...
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a so...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD

Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates h...
AI WEIWEI

It is a beautiful piece of art that will inspire our children and adults to learn more about marine ...
JOE GAYDOS

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS

The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...
MARINA WARNER

Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measur...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

It is our clear view that a cyberthreat can disrupt the provision of services and disrupt our societ...
JAMIE GORELICK

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO

The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more pur...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...
CHARLES BRADLAUGH

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance....
HOZIER

You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance....
HOZIER

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good m...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.
RICK RIORDAN

This culture that is mingling in our society has no justification. Our society will confront them an...
MARWAN MUASHER

When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything ...
SAM DONALDSON

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV

At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN

I'm the type of girl who smiles a lot. I'm the type of girl who is kind to everyone. I'm the type of...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulat...
WHITNEY WOLFE

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and th...
HERBERT READ

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law...
JAMES F. COOPER

...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN

Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL

Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN

The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the ma...
HANNAH ARENDT

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society witho...
ROBERT REDFORD

Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the...
EUGENE DEBS

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER

Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN

Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of any...
JEFFREY TUCKER

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses...
ERICH FROMM

Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi...
C. JOYBELL C.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
DAN O'BRIEN

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the ...
EDMUND BURKE

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep ...
DANNY MASTERSON

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
MARGARET ATWOOD

But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irres...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. D...
ANTHONY ERVIN

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
CHRIS PRENTISS

Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year, ... It has real...
AARON SMALL

Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year. It has really h...
AARON SMALL

Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN

If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN

Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN

Without respect for people of different races or ethnicities or religions, how can we have a peacefu...
JAGAD GURU CHRIS BUTLER

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise...
CLAUDIO HUMMES

If only we can agree that us mortal human beings only have relevance when there are opposing forces ...
LENNOX D.LAMPKIN

You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?
ANONYMOUS

Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a fa...
RICK RIORDAN

It is only the society that are being taught the power of cause and effect that becomes strong and r...
SUNDAY ADELAJA

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN

Devdutt Pattanaik

Share:

Related

More Devdutt Pattanaik