There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe. - Michael Moorcock

Here information and philosophies were exchanged, together with all manner of goods. This was a court whose energies were not devoted to maintaining itself unchanged for eternity, but to every kind of new idea and lively, humane discussion, which welcomed fresh thought not as a threat to its existence but as a very necessity to its continued well-being, whose wealth was devoted to experiment in the arts and sciences, to supporting those who were needy, to aiding thinkers and scholars. The Bright Empire’s brightness would come no longer from the glow of putrefaction but from the light of reason and good will.

Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.

Entropy's setting in. Or so they say."
"Why should that be true?"
"It's Time—it's all used up."
"This is metaphysical nonsense!"
"Very likely.