David HumeReason 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.
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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. - Edmund Burke As long as the passions are obedient to reason, there is no room for dispute. It is because reason cannot by itself achieve anything that we must depend on the passions for support. In this way, reason can serve as a slave to the passions.
Source: A Treatise Of Human Nature
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