is such that it will absolutely prevent a spring out of it. For this view is obsessed by the latest news, and regards them as the only thing that is real. This view is indeed fantastical; but the same is not true of a thinking ahead, looking toward that which approaches us as the call of the active nature of identity between man and Being.
Thinking has needed more than two thousand years really to understand such a simple relation as that of the mediation within identity. Do we then have a right to the opinion that the thinking entry into the essential source of identity could be achieved in a day? Precisely because this entry requires a spring, it must take its time, the time of thinking which is different from the time of calculation that pulls our thinking in all directions. Today, the computer calculates thousands of relationships in one second. Despite their technical uses, they are inessential.
Whatever and however we may try to think, we think within the sphere of tradition. Tradition prevails when it frees us from thinking back to a thinking forward, which is no longer a planning.
Only when we turn thoughtfully toward what has already been thought, will we be turned to use for what must still be thought.
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