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.
Upward, not Northward - Edwin A. Abbott
Upward, not Northward
- 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
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…
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
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…
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 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.
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
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…
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. - Edwin A. Abbott
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation. - Edwin A. Abbott
Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard. - Edwin A. Abbott
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
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