All Edward Carpenter Quotes
- We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. Day
- Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. All
- Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Doe
- I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. Animal
- 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… Arrange
- Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the… Building
- Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. Been
- I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment… Came
- Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds. April
- With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. Aspiring
- My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. Been
- I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. Armchair
- IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. April
- IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law… All
- 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… Advantage
- The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. Funny
- When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though… Began
- Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… Absorbing
- For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of… Building
- I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible… Able
- Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the… Dead
- Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. Early
- Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy… Book