The DAILY NIETZSCHE: BECOME HARD

"Why so hard?" the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. 

"After all, are we not close kin?"

Why so soft? O my brothers, thus I ask you: 

are you not after all my brothers?

Why so soft, so pliant and yielding? 

Why is there so much denial, self-denial, in your hearts?

So little destiny in your eyes?

And if you do not want to be destinies and inexorable ones, 

how can you one day triumph with me?

And if your hardness does not wish to flash and cut through, 

how can you one day create with me?

For all creators are hard.

Only the noblest is altogether hard. 

And it must seem blessedness to you to impress your hand on 

millennia as on wax.

Blessedness to write on the wall of millennia as on bronze 

-harder than bronze, nobler than bronze.

This new tablet, O my brothers, I place over you: become hard!

AN EMANATION OF HERO MECHALITH
 
http://heromechalithmillennium.blogspot.com/

FROM TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS, OR 

HOW TO PHILOSOPHIZE WITH A HAMMER