Upward, not Northward

- Edwin A. Abbott

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 impotently happy.

- Edwin A. Abbott

Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who sha…

- Edwin A. Abbott

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

- Edwin A. Abbott

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

- Edwin A. Abbott

I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragment…

- Edwin A. Abbott

Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long tra…

- Edwin A. Abbott

Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.

- Edwin A. Abbott

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

- Edwin A. Abbott