James Mackintosh quotes
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“The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.”
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“Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.”
-- James MackintoshSource : 'Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy' (1830) sect. 6 'Jeremy Bentham'
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“It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.”
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“Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.”
-- James MackintoshSource : James Mackintosh (1791). “Vindiciae Gallicae”, p.199
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“Whatever is popular deserves attention.”
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“The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Vindiciae Gallicae sec. 1 (1791)
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“The frivolous work of polished idleness.”
-- James MackintoshSource : James Mackintosh (1872). “On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries”, p.232
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“Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”
-- James MackintoshSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 638-39, quoted on the title page of Broom's Legal Maxims (1911), 1922.
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“Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume”, p.27
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“A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1834). “A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, p.117
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“The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1848). “The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.429
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“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.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange”, p.24
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“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.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1836). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.411
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“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.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.217
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“Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume”, p.95
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“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.”
-- James MackintoshSource : Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.42
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