“Doubtless we cannot see that other higher Spaceland now, because we have no eye in our stomachs.” — Edwin A. Abbott Dimensions 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Ignorant 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Children 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Courtship 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Hope 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Confined 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Number Two 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.… — Edwin A. Abbott Nature 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Wisdom 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Straight line Copy Share Image
“you are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice!” — Edwin A. Abbott Feminine Copy Share Image
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. — Edwin A. Abbott Approval Copy Share Image
“To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.” — Edwin A. Abbott Classes Copy Share Image
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. — Edwin A. Abbott Dawn Copy Share Image
“It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and… — Edwin A. Abbott Angle 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Axiom Policy Copy Share Image
“Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is Knowledge; it… — Edwin A. Abbott Madness Copy Share Image
“The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition;… — Edwin A. Abbott Education 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Beast Copy Share Image
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our… — Edwin A. Abbott Add Copy Share Image
“In One Dimensions, did not a moving Point produce a Line with two terminal points? In two Dimensions, did not a moving… — Edwin A. Abbott Mathematics 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Patriotism 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… — Edwin A. Abbott Change Copy Share Image
