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 revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.”
    —Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)

    “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)