Animal Spirits

Animal spirits may refer to:

  • Animal spirits (Keynes), the Keynesian term indicating the emotional component of economies represented in consumer confidence
  • Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, a 2009 book by economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
  • Animism, a philosophical, religious or spiritual idea that souls or spirits exist in humans, animals, plants or other entities

Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or spirits:

    “To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
    —C.S. (Clive Staples)