Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.

— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

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