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Logic1 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. — G.K. Chesterton · 1902
Persuasion1 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. — G.K. Chesterton · 1902
Reason1 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. — G.K. Chesterton · 1902
Rome1 quote
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Caesar Augustus · 121