Q: What, then, is truth?
A: 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. (Nietzsche, "On Truths and Lies in the Extra-Moral Sense," 1874).