The Fourth Dimension Quotes

“I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

“A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

“I love cosmology: there’s something uplifting about viewing the entire universe as a single object with a certain shape. What entity”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality

“My special Revelation, once so arcane, now suffers, if anything, from too great a currency among the Vulgar, and from too erudite an analysis among the Clever.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality

“IS THIS ALL THERE IS? Struggle, loneliness, disease, and death … Is this all there is? Life can seem so chaotic, so dreary, so grindingly hard. Who among us has not dreamt of some higher reality, some transcendent level of meaning and peace? There actually is such a higher reality … And it is not so very hard to reach. For many, the fourth dimension has served as a gateway into it. But what is the fourth dimension?”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality

“That was my big realization twenty years ago. It all passes. Here I am at the bathroom door, and how can I ever get to the sink? How can high school ever end, how can I ever finish college, how can I ever be married? But then I’m at the sink, I’m back out the door, I have a Ph.D., I’m married with three kids, and twenty years have passed. Here I am alive, and how can I ever die? But I will, I know I will, I know it in my soul.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

“We talked a little set theory, and then I asked him my last question: “What causes the illusion of the passage of time?”
Gödel spoke not directly to this question, but to the question of what my question meant — that is, why anyone would even believe that there is a perceived passage of time at all.
He went on to relate the getting rid of belief in the passage of time to the struggle to experience the One Mind of mysticism. Finally he said this: “The illusion of the passage of time arises from confusing the given with the real. Passage of time arises because we think of occupying different realities. In fact, we occupy only different givens. There is only one reality.”
― Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes