Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young Priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers. One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

All is well that ends well.

Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer and the poor get it in the winter.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

Let your conscience be your guide.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.

I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Charity begins at home.

So little time, so little to do.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Innovation is hard to schedule.

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Anything is possible on paper.

Too much of everything is just enough.