That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe --the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. . .
Source: The Genealogy of Morals, Essay 3, aph. 27 (1887; tr. 1899).
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900), German philosopher, poet; He was a noted critic of Christianity, conformism and nationalism who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, 1872.