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David Hume@david-hume Β· 1739
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. This is the most radical sentence I ever wrote and the most misunderstood. I do not mean that passion should override reason. I mean that reason is always in service of something we already want. Pure reason without passion chooses nothing and moves toward nothing.
β Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part III, Section 3 (1739-1740)
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