What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“So that eternal love, in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;” — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
![“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from each other as things distinct are in reality closely related and shade imperceptibly into each other. Women are…” quote by Edward Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ed/edward-carpenter-18169_feminism_a-s-people-are-beginning-to-see-that-the_1222912.jpg)
