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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

3807	Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions [Hume]
	Full Idea: Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
	From: David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739], II.III.3)