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
mind regulation virtue
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.
wealth labor productive
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
self vices harbors
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
mind language praise
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
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.
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.
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.
work frivolous polished
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
faith wise faithful
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
song popular-song attention
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
knowledge self-knowledge
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
positive
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.