Edward Carpenter Quotes
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.
And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.
Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
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.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
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.
Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.
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!
But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY
