Edward Carpenter Quotes

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. - Edward Carpenter

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 he were destined to remain long on board ship! - Edward Carpenter

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 ever written. - Edward Carpenter

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. - Edward Carpenter

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. - Edward Carpenter

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

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline. - Edward Carpenter

Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly. - Edward Carpenter

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life. - Edward Carpenter

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