The Point
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 own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality, for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence 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.
Notes:
Folksonomies: perspective dimensions
Taxonomies:
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Cognition (0.701243): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
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Light-year (0.659888): dbpedia | freebase
The Point (0.644805): dbpedia
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions