Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head r…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.
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