“My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to perfection than yourself. As you yourself, superior to all Flatland forms, combine many Circles in One, so doubtless… — 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 to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a… — 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
...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best that loveth best All things both great and small;… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
“you are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice!” — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
