# Quote — Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

> 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 transcend the sphere of blind Custom, and so become Transcendental?

- Author: [Thomas Carlyle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle.md)
- Book: [Sartor Resartus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-carlyle/sartor-resartus.md)
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> Love not Pleasure; love God.

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