Emotion

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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.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature

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Topic

Reason and emotion Reason Emotion

Author

David Hume

Source

A Treatise of Human Nature

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1739 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 2, pt. 3, sect. 3.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 2, pt. 3, sect. 3.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Topic

Stiff upper lip Emotion English people

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Source

Notes on the English Character Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Forster, E.M. "Notes on the English Character." Abinger Harvest. Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.