And that we despairing ones have now come into thy cave, and already no longer despair:—it is but a prognostic and a presage that better ones are on the way to thee,— —For they themselves are on the way to thee, the last remnant of God among men—that is to say, all the men of great longing, of great loathing, of great satiety, —All who do not want to live unless they learn again to HOPE—unless they learn from thee, O Zarathustra, the GREAT hope!”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ye have come unto me only as a presage that higher ones are on the way to me,— —NOT the men of great longing, of great loathing, of great satiety, and that which ye call the remnant of God; —Nay!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Leaves of Grass LEAVES OF GRASS By Walt Whitman Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The natural motives of man are, according to Kant (evidently following Hobbes), love of power, love of gain, love of glory.
— from German philosophy and politics by John Dewey

There is less of glitter, less of glare than in most of the towns of the Riviera.
— from The Broken Thread by William Le Queux

Moreover, if in Christian morality love of man resolves itself, in the last resort, into love of God, love of God is always adulterated with fear; the Old Testament insists upon it with positive complacency.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau