{"id":64,"date":"2005-07-23T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T22:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2005-07-23T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T22:35:26","slug":"hardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/nietzsche\/hardness-64","title":{"rendered":"Hardness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nietzsche, <em>Twilight of the Idols<\/em>, 1889, Kaufmann translation, \u201cThe Hammer Speaks\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Thus Spoke Zarathustra, III: On Old and New Tablets, 29.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy so hard?\u201d\u009d the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. \u201cAfter all, are we not close kin?\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nWhy so soft? O my brothers, thus I ask you: are you not after all my brothers?<br \/>\nWhy so soft, so pliant and yielding? Why is there so much denial, self-denial, in your hearts? So little destiny in your eyes?<br \/>\nAnd if you do not want to be destinies and inexorable ones, how can you one day triumph with me?<br \/>\nAnd if your hardness does not wish to flash and cut through, how can you one day create with me?<br \/>\nFor all creators are hard. And it must seem blessedness to you to impress your hand on millennia as on wax.<br \/>\nBlessedness to write on the will of millennia as on bronze\t\u2014harder than bronze, nobler than bronze. Only the noblest is altogether hard.<br \/>\nThis new tablet, O my brothers, I place over you: Become hard! \t\u2014 \t\u2014<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201chardness\u201d\u009d is what a man <em>must<\/em> become to live in a world where he does not belong and never will. It is, in the end, unclear whether this is a sad or a happy thought. Whether the diamond or the piece of coal has it better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, \u201cThe Hammer Speaks\u201d\u009d. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, III: On Old and New Tablets, 29. \u201cWhy so hard?\u201d\u009d the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. \u201cAfter all, are we not close kin?\u201d\u009d Why so soft? O my brothers, thus I ask you: are you not after all my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/nietzsche\/hardness-64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hardness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}