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:

    “The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “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)