Gilbert K. Chesterton Touching Quotations

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

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.