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:

    “You don’t want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is all purely secondary—and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
    The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
    Of him who walked in glory and in joy
    Following his plough, along the mountain side:
    By our own spirits are we deified:
    We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
    But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)