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“Ich fragte nicht weiter. Die Menschen reagieren empfindlich, wenn man ihren Glauben mit der Ökonomie verknüpft. Es gibt aber nichts, was die Welt bewegt, als allein das Gold. Selbst die Liebe entzündet sich am Gold. Und der Glaube erst recht. Ihr senkt die Knie vor eurer Göttin, wenn sie vors Portal tritt, juwelenüberrieselt der reine Leib. Würdet ihr sie auch lieben, wenn sie im Keller die Asche versorgte, Krätzeflecken auf der Haut? Nur eine Macht habe ich gefunden in der Welt, die kümmert sich nicht ums Gold: die Geilheit. Aber die ist schnell verraucht, und ohne Folgen. Vornehme Frauen habe ich gesehen, die Spreize machend unter einem Stallknecht, der stank nach Mist. Ergraute Männer habe ich gesehen, schwer von Würde, die rannten eine Hure zu ficken, die die ganze Stadt schon hatte. Ich sprach davon zu meinem alten Lehrer, und er sah mich an und sagte: Man soll nicht davon reden. Ich war schon ein junger Mann damals, war auf Reisen gewesen, und mein alter Lehrer erhielt sein Gnadenbrot auf meines Vaters Gut, wie es den Pferden und den Sklaven zusteht. Ich war enttäuscht über seine Antwort und verachtete ihn. Heute weiß ich, dass ich ein Kind war und dumm und hochfahrend. Er hatte recht. In seinen Worten lag die einzige Weisheit, zu der einer kommen kann. Man soll nicht darüber reden.”

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Book:An der Mauer
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“Worldly people, you see, use far more wisdom, about their trifling affairs than unworldly people do about the affairs of God. They give their minds to what they are doing. And I say to you. Learn from them. Learn how to deal with the world and make friends with worldly people, so that when everything earthly fails you may know the way to their hearts. The man who is reliable in little things is reliable in great things too—and if you can’t handle the goods of this world, how can you be trusted to handle the true treasures of Heaven?”

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Book:The Man Born to Be King
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“The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems
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“Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.”

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Book:JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more
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“It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.”

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Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
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“If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.”

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Book:Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies
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“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken
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“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes
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“Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.”

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Author:Vincent de Paul
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“I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
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“It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.”

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Author:Wilfred Trotter
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