Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” cal… - Edwin A. Abbott

" "
Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily.

Edwin A. Abbott

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Edwin A. Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, most famous as the author of the social satire Flatland (1884), widely noted for its use of mathematical dimensions in religious and political allegories.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Edwin A. Abbott Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Edwin A. Abbott:

Edwin Abbott Abbott Friedrich Nietzsche Jack Vance Michel de Montaigne Aldous Huxley

Additional quotes by Edwin A. Abbott

I looked, and, behold, a new world!

If a man with a triangular front and a polygonal back were allowed to exist and to propagate a still more Irregular posterity, what would become of the arts of life? Are the houses and doors and churches in Flatland to be altered in order to accommodate such monsters?

"Behold me - I am a Line, the longest in Lineland, over six inches of Space - "Of Length," I ventured to suggest. Fool, said he, Space is Length."

Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your e… - Edwin A. Abbott

About Edwin A. Abbott

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Edwin A. Abbott

Advanced Search Filters