When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn Germ… — 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!

Edward CarpenterActivist · English · 1844 – 1929

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The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household. — Amar Bose
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. — Edward Carpenter
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. — Edward Carpenter