I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. - Woody Allen The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or notwhat you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want. - David Foster Wallace