Nietzsche, Will to Power (1906)

[The Beginning]

“The story I have to tell is the history of the next two centuries…For a long time now our whole civilization has been driving, with a tortured intensity growing from decade to decade, as if towards a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, tempestuously, like a mighty river desiring the end of its journey, without pausing to reflect, indeed fearful of reflection…”