Devdutt Pattanaik Quotes

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Remember that all is opinion.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

History is nothing but a procession of false absolutes.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

Everything is mere opinion.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.