Chesterton

"We see a fence in the middle of the road and think it is an obstacle to be removed. We do not ask why it was put there."

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English essayist, critic, and novelist, creator of Father Brown and a master of the defended paradox. His characteristic move is to pause before the thing everyone wants to discard and insist on first understanding why it was built.