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:

    “I’m beginning to think that the proper definition of “Man” is “an animal that writes letters.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)