G. K. Chesterton Quote

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.


Twelve Types (1903) Charles II


Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of...

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of...

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of...

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of...