"χρὴ τὸ λέγειν τε νοεῖν τ’ἐὸν ἔμμεναι"

According to the usual translations, this means :

"One should both say and think that Being is."

It would be most in keeping with the way on which we have set out with our question, if we were now to leave off all asides and warnings, and tried to trace in thought what the saying tells us. But today, when we know much too much and form opinions much too quickly, when we com. pute and pigeonhole everything in a flash-today there is no room at all left for the hope that the presentation of a matter might in itself be powerful enough to set in motion any fellow-thinking which, prompted by the showing of the matter, would join us on our way. We therefore need these bothersome detours and crutches that otherwise run counter to the style of thinking ways. This is the necessity to which we bow when we now attempt, by circumscribing the matter in ever narrower circles, to render possible the leap into what the saying tells us:

"χρὴ τὸ λέγειν τε νοεῖν τ’ἐὸν ἔμμεναι"

"One should both say and think that Being is."