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.
Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right. - Peter F. Hamilton
Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.
- Peter F. Hamilton
You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly. - Peter F. Hamilton
You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.
Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving. - Peter F. Hamilton
Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.
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 yo… - Peter F. Hamilton
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 yo…
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 estima… - Peter F. Hamilton
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 estima…
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change. - Peter F. Hamilton
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
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 cur… - Peter F. Hamilton
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 cur…
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 work… - Peter F. Hamilton
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 work…
HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something … - Peter F. Hamilton
HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something …
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