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Reason properly used will critically examine an emotion which is leading one astray, whereas improperly used it will uncritically defend such an emotion. It will not hesitate to puncture the ego's inflated complacency in the first case whereas it will support this complacency in the second one.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 1 : The Place of Intellect > # 174