List of Edward Carpenter Quotes

With My Somewhat Vague Aspiring Mind, To Be Imprisoned In The Rude Details Of A Most Material Life Was Often Irksome.

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!

And Where There Had Been Only Jeers Or Taunts At First, Crowds Came To Listen With Serious And Sympathetic Mien.

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.

My Ideas Had Been Taking A Socialistic Shape For Many Years; But They Were Lacking In Definite Outline.

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.

Making A Choice Is Like Backing A Horse - In A Hundred Years, They May Decide You Picked Wrongly.

Great Success In Examinations Does Naturally Not As A Rule Go With Originality Of Thought.

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 Of Mounted Police Came Cantering Up.

The Other Thing That Happened In 1883 Was My Reading Of Thoreau's Walden.

I Might Have Simply Settled Down Into An Armchair Literary Life. I Really Don't Know Exactly Why I Didn't.

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.