...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Once a Woman, always a Woman" is a Decree of Nature; and the very Laws of Evolution seem suspended in her disfavour. Yet at… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to perfection than… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places,… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.” — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places,… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize in each other's voices the partner intended for them by Providence,… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
