Animal Spirits Quotes:

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

- Sitting Bull

source: Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

topic: Animal, Yield, Land, Spiritual Indian, Animal Spirits

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Happiness, Beauty, Laughter, Animal Spirits

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 12, Section 7, p. 161, February 1936.

topic: Animal, Spirit, Reason, Animal Spirits

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

- Abdu'l-Bahá

topic: Book, Animal, Men, Animal Spirits, Holy Books

Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and unconditional love. When we mistreat animals, we mistreat ourselves. When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls.

- Marc Bekoff

topic: Unconditional Love, Animal, Compassion, Mistreat, Animal Spirits

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

- Tobias Smollett

source: Tobias Smollett (1822). “The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume”, p.184

topic: Animal, Different, Opinion, Animal Spirits

I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.

- Sandra Cisneros

source: "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

topic: Animal, Phoenix, Desert, Animal Spirits

Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.

- Sandra Cisneros

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Country, Cousin, Growing Up, Flora, Flora And Fauna

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

- Paul Johnson

topic: Animal, Capitalist Economy, Venture, Animal Spirits

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

- Kevin O'Leary

topic: Home, Animal, Buying, Animal Spirits, Buying Power

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Animal, Safety, Enemy, Good Humor, Animal Spirits

But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Animal, Government, Demand, Spendthrift, Keynesianism

Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

- Jeremy Grantham

topic: Animal, Air, Years, Pleasant Surprises, Animal Spirits

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

- Karl Marx

source: Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

topic: Animal, Men, Delight, Animal Spirits

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

- Rupert Murdoch

topic: Country, Animal, America, Animal Spirits

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift ...”, p.125

topic: Art, Animal, Ears, Cockles, Punning

Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, book 4, chapter 12, section 7, p. 161, February, 1936.

topic: Taken, Animal, Average, Days To Come, Animal Spirits

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

- Emanuel Swedenborg

source: Emanuel Swedenborg (1887). “The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically: The pituitary gland, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata”

topic: Animal, Blood, Brain, Animal Spirits

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

- William Cobbett

source: William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Dance, Animal, People, Animal Spirits

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?

- Margaret Atwood

source: "Margaret Atwood: 'I have a big following among the biogeeks. 'Finally! Someone understands us!'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

topic: Animal, Joy, Forever, Animal Spirits, Aristocratic