Life & Wisdom Quote by Stuart Chase

A clean little heresy dressed up as a compliment: if God really had aesthetic preferences, the world would look like a runway. Instead, Chase flips the usual hierarchy - beauty as divine favor, plainness as lack - into a statistical punchline. The line works because it borrows the comforting grammar of religious reassurance ("The Lord prefers...") and then undercuts it with the deadpan logic of mass production. So many ordinary faces? Must be the Creator's taste. It's a joke that pretends to be theology, which lets it sneak in its actual target: human status games.

The subtext is less about God than about our insistence on reading moral meaning into appearance. Chase uses the language of providence to expose how arbitrary our rankings are. If abundance is evidence of preference, then the "common-looking" majority can claim a kind of cosmic mandate - not merely acceptance, but dominance. It's democratization by way of sarcasm.

Context matters: Chase wrote in an America increasingly shaped by advertising, Hollywood glamour, and consumer-era aspiration, where beauty was becoming both a market and a ladder. Against that backdrop, the quote pokes at the anxiety industries thrive on: the fear of being unremarkable. It's not exactly body positivity; it's a sly refusal to treat exceptional looks as exceptional worth. Chase doesn't plead for empathy. He makes vanity look silly, which is often the sharper instrument.