Quotes About Zeitgeist

For no reason at all a synonym for unformed popped into my head: inchoate. I don't know why I thought of that word right now. I didn't need a synonym. What I needed was a sea change, a paradigm shift, an evolution in the zeitgeist, something to make the entire world get off my back and pick on somebody else for a while.

This raises the question of the role of Kantianism in Piaget's thinking. In the many discussions about this problem with one of us, Piaget denied any influence "except, maybe, a very indirect one…something like what Boring would have called the Zeitgeist and we all know that the Zeitgeist is everywhere, that is nowhere" (personal communication). We know of another example, however, where Piaget tends to cover his tracks carefully (see Piaget, 1982).

It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.

Zeitgeist is a German word that means "spirit of the age."  The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the thought of Socrates), while that of the Middle Ages and Victorianism was hierarchy (Dante) and progress (Tennyson), respectively.  As for the darker zeitgeist of modernism, marked by relativism and subjectivism, though Lewis did not embody it, he understood it better than many of its most ardent supporters.

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.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

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

Die größte Sorge des zeitgenössischen Intellektuellen ist die, man könne ihn für altmodisch und gestrig halten. Das dürfte auch der Grund sein, warum die moderne Kunst inzwischen quasi unkritisierbar ist.

Although Postmodernism was certainly a fad, it was also a Zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. It meant something, despite its own best efforts, at least as a symptom. The disappearance of reality that it announced was itself real, as was the realm of simulation that replaced it.

Die Christen Nietzsches sind nicht die von gestern, sondern die von heute. Kein exakter Historiker, aber vielleicht ein Prophet.