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.

— David Hume Early Modern

Empiricism, skepticism

A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 2, Part 3, Section 3

1739-1740

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