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.

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum" Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

  68 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  183 Copy quote

• 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

  49 Copy quote

• 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

  2 Copy quote

• 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

  "'Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks New Comic 'Jonas Quantum,' DC Crossovers & More". Interview with Andrew Dyce, screenrant.com. May 13, 2015.

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  2 Copy quote

• The real revolution is the revolution of values

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Revolution, Values

  12 Copy quote

• I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where I am today, so I know I don't know what's going to happen in the next five years or the next 20 years. I have my predictions—I'm sure technology will continue to have an impact on fashion, particularly the way people shop. I think quality will be increasingly important—we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Moving, Technology

  3 Copy quote

• 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

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

  Robert Hughes

  New York Review of Books, October 27, 1983.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Source: therumpus.net

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

  Josh Gad

  Cat, Years, Singing

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 PENN, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

  James Hillman

  Invisible, Visible, Vessel

  James Hillman (2009). “Alchemical Psychology: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Trying, Done

  Source: wwd.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.

  Peter Morgan

  Book, Play, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

  William Friedkin

  Stars, War, Forever

  "Inside the Forgotten Movie Masterpiece Sorcerer". Interview with Bryan Reesman, www.esquire.com. April 30, 2014.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Knowing, Air

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source