Comment: Hume meant that logic and thinking alone cannot make us do anything. Only our feelings, desires, and emotions (which he called "passions") give us the drive to act. Reason's only job is to figure out the best way to reach the goals that our passions want.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
Credit: David Hume
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
(Book 2, Part 3, Section 3)Quotations: David Hume (1)
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