Peter F. Hamilton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Dream #Reality #Way
You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#People #Embrace #Ideology
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Passion #Balance #Tugging
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Believe #Thinking #Doubt
This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Age #World #Politician
The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Military #Technology #Abuse
HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Office #Sound #Kind
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Light #Twenties #Century
Sometimes you have to do whatâ€™s wrong in order to do whatâ€™s right.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Order #Sometimes
How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Blessing #Appreciate #Way
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
-- Peter F. Hamilton

#Long #Resistance #Life Is

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