There are very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached from ambition and respect for power, from "people of position." And among those who are more delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect for power in the same way superstition arises on the ruins of religious beliefs.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There are very few philosophers and artists who are absolutely detached from ambition and respect for power, from "people of position." And among those who are more delicate or more sated, snobism replaces ambition and respect for power in the same way superstition arises on the ruins of religious beliefs." in the context of "Marcel Proust, notes to Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin (1906)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.