Thomas Carlyle

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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?

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?