WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63187/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Thomas Carlyle</b></a></p><blockquote>Philosophy complains that Custom has hoodwinked us, from the first; that we do everything by Custom, even Believe by it; that our very Axioms, let us boast of Free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such Beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Nay, what is Philosophy throughout but a continual battle against Custom; an ever-renewed effort to <i>transcend</i> the sphere of blind Custom, and so become Transcendental?</blockquote><p><b>Thomas Carlyle</b> (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian<br><i>Sartor Resartus</i>, Book 3, ch. 8 (1834)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63187/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63187…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=thomascarlyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thomascarlyle</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conformity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conformity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=custom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>custom</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=freethinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freethinker</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=socialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialization</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tradition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tradition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=transcendence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transcendence</span></a></p>