James Mackintosh
James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintoshwas a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth24 October 1765
James Mackintosh quotes about
faith wise faithful
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
positive
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.
knowledge self-knowledge
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
song popular-song attention
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
work frivolous polished
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
inspiring maxims nations
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
men fellow-man opinion
Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.
freedom responsibility rights
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
generosity taught fiction
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.
sex philosophy grace
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.
mind language praise
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
self vices harbors
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
wealth labor productive
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.