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

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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

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

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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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• The real revolution is the revolution of values

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Revolution, Values

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• 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

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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

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

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• There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

  Robert Hughes

  New York Review of Books, October 27, 1983.

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• 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

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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 do my very best to not allow external trends or zeitgeists to feed into what I'm producing.

  Rick Remender

  Trends

  Source: www.ign.com

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• What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Today, Tomorrow, Remember

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• The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

  Jil Sander

  Fashion, Strong, May

  "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.

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• In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

  Fritjof Capra

  Psychology, Intellectual, Culture

  "The Web of Life". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1996.

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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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• 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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• It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

  Andre Holland

  Needs, Film, Moonlight

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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