James Mackintosh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
-- James Mackintosh

#Coffee #Men #Mind
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
-- James Mackintosh

#Men #Opinion
It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.
-- James Mackintosh

#Positive
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
-- James Mackintosh

#Knowledge #Self Knowledge
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
-- James Mackintosh

#Song #Popular Song #Attention
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
-- James Mackintosh

#Faith #Wise #Faithful
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
-- James Mackintosh

#Work #Idleness
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
-- James Mackintosh

#Inspiring #Maxims
Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.
-- James Mackintosh

#Men #Fellow Man #Opinion
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
-- James Mackintosh

#Self #Vices #Harbors
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
-- James Mackintosh

#Wealth #Labor #Productive
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 Mackintosh

#Freedom #Responsibility #Rights
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 Mackintosh

#Mind #Regulation #Virtue
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 Mackintosh

#Sex #Philosophy #Grace
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
-- James Mackintosh

#Mind #Language #Praise
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 Mackintosh

#Generosity #Fiction #Taught

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