"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors,
metonyms, and anthropomorphisms--in short, a sum of human relations, which have
been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and
which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths
are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are;
metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost
their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."
--Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
