Wisdom
What the people call wisdom, I call worldly wisdom. Wordly wisdom is the science of serving many masters at once. It is the wisdom of being able to hold countless contradictory beliefs simultaneously, all the while believing them to be perfectly compatible.
The most worldly wise have reached the absolute conviction that it is impossible to know the truth. They consider all profound insights to be merely a veil over this "truth" of theirs - albeit a dignifying veil.
Deadly words
The words of the great teachers of the past are time bombs, meant to destroy us. The religious people of today, seeing all these dangerous things left carelessly lying about, defuse them with their sterile intellectual reasoning. They turn something great into something commonplace - wine into water.
"Tut tut" they say "this will just confuse people. With my special and valued talents I will transform it into something useful". Consequently nobody dies of fatal truths anymore, there are too many antidotes available.