Zeitgeist Quotes

• Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Creativity, Kids, Impact

  "Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Jesus, Reflection, Fans

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• Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist for a moment, but also that the individual isn't always clear they are doing so.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Believe, Men, Hegel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Book, Long, Ink

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Community, Mind

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• It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence named Aiwass or whether it stemmed from the creative deeps of Aleister Crowley. The book was written. And he became the mouthpiece for the Zeitgeist, accurately expressing the intrinsic nature of our time as no one else has done to date.

  Israel Regardie

  Running, Book, Law

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• The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Party, Cutting

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• I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Adventure, Superhero, Television

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

  Max Brooks

  Technology, Worship, World War Z

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.166, Broadway Books

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• Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.

  Mike Pohjola

  Wall, Tvs, Tweet

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• I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

  William Gibson

  Tea, Trying, Invites

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Games, Hunger, Disparity

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• No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

  Robert Bork

  Church, Politics, Contempt

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• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  Yochai Benkler

  Practice, Organization, Ideas

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• The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Average, Degrees

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.

  Nick Frost

  People, Missing, Trying

  "Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Interview: Growing Up, Getting Old and 'The World's End'". Interview with Matt Patches, screencrush.com. August 20, 2013.

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• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Personally, I don't think it's possible to do great things alone or through individual actions. On the contrary, I think it is only possible to know what to do in a specific moment once you have understood the zeitgeist, and it is only possible to move things forward if you have a sense of responsibility. And that is exactly the goal I have set for myself: to try to encourage France and the French people to change and develop further.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Moving, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and by today's zeitgeist that insists it takes a village. That's disempowering although possibly true for many people.

  Marty Nemko

  Jobs, Thinking, It Takes A Village

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in which it is produced. I think it's inescapable. It's like we look back now, at work done savoring the thirties, and you can almost tell it was done during that period of time. Now maybe, that's a style of period or something, I don't know. I think my work, or the things that interest me, come out of my reaction to history.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I've said this a lot lately, too: if, 20 or 30 years down the road, when everything's said and done, I was never able to achieve that level of zeitgeist again, then so be it. I know how rare it is for anybody to do that. But I also feel like, OK, we're getting on to 25 years of putting out records: that's also kind of rare air for anybody who makes music. And I think you just end up kind of grateful for every opportunity that comes along.

  DJ Shadow

  Grateful, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that that person said. It really behooves people in the public eye to know what's in the zeitgeist and to have opinions on it. It becomes a thing of is this genuine, or is this just a way for celebrities to keep themselves relevant in a time when this is obviously a hot topic?

  Andi Zeisler

  Eye, People, Hot

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The result is folk religion rather than classical, historical Christianity which has always included sound theology.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Feelings, Historical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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