Quotes from 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!

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

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.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.