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Top 20 Edward Carpenter Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Carpenter Quote: “Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.”

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

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.”

2. “Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “Motherhood is, after all, woman’s great and incomparable work.”

3. “Motherhood is, after all, woman’s great and incomparable work.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.”

4. “I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.”

6. “Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.”

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

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Edward Carpenter

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

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

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “So that eternal love, in love’s fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;.”

10. “So that eternal love, in love’s fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.”

12. “Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “Making a choice is like backing a horse – in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.”

13. “Making a choice is like backing a horse – in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “For any sustained and more or less original work it seems most necessary that one should have the quietude and strength of Nature at hand, like a great reservoir from which to draw. The open air, and the physical and mental health that goes with it, the sense of space and freedom of the Sky, the vitality and amplitude of the Earth – these are real things from which one can only cut oneself off at serious peril and risk to one’s immortal soul.”

14. “For any sustained and more or less original work it seems most necessary that one should have the quietude and strength of Nature at hand, like a great reservoir from which to draw. The open air, and the physical and mental health that goes with it, the sense of space and freedom of the Sky, the vitality and amplitude of the Earth – these are real things from which one can only cut oneself off at serious peril and risk to one’s immortal soul.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.”

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

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “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!”

16. “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!”

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Edward Carpenter Quote: “Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.”

17. “Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don’t know exactly why I didn’t.”

18. “I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don’t know exactly why I didn’t.”

— Edward Carpenter

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

19. “My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.”

— Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter Quote: “The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau’s Walden.”

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

— Edward Carpenter

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Edward Carpenter Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Edward Carpenter Quote: “It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms – a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual.”

22. “It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms – a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual.”

— Edward Carpenter

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