James Mackintosh Quotes

1765–1832 Scotland

Sir James Mackintosh (October 24, 1765 – May 30, 1832) was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor and philosopher.

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Also known as: Mackintosh, James

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The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791)

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (1830)

The theory (propounded by Vedanta) [is] refined, abstruse, ingenious and beautiful.

It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh Vol. I (1835)

Having insured the moderation of a fanatical rabble, by giving out among them the savage war-whoop of atheism, he (Edmund Burke) already fancies himself in full march to Paris.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Vindiciæ Gallicæ (1791)

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