To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

— Albert Camus on Adoration

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well." in the context of "Albert Camus, in Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization 01-Jan-2000, p. 47 Carol A. Dingle." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Albert Camus

About Albert Camus

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French Pied-Noir author, absurdist philosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.