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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part III, Sect. 3 (Of the influencing motives of the will) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
The conclusion of Hume's argument that reason alone can neither produce action nor oppose a passion.
Citation: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part III, Sect. 3 (Of the influencing motives of the will) (Project Gutenberg #4705). (id a-treatise-of-human-nature-q12)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
