The aristocratically minded person has a good sense of history. They are aware of how consensus changes, quite dramatically, over time. Ideas from forty years ago about marriage or work, politics or sexuality now often strike us as quaint or absurd. The aristocrat draws the lesson that today's 'obvious' truths are equally fragile, and they therefore don't feel they owe them any special respect or adherence.

— Simpler Life by Alain de Botton, The School Life of School The (Page 20)