Edward Carpenter Quotes

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

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

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!

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.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau’s Walden.

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.