Griechisch und Deutsch, trans. Friedrich Nietzsche's writings are filled with attacks on the triviality of this kind of speech. I see you dazed by the noise of the great men and stung all over by the stings of the little men. Woods and crags know how to keep a dignified silence with you. He knows nothing, but he pretends that he does.
Dependence is the inability to use our own reasoning.
Instead, we rely on others to do our thinking for us. People fail to gain an understanding of the meaning presented here, both before and after they hear it. For even if everything happens according to this meaning, they act like novices whenever they test themselves against the words and deeds I explain by analyzing and dissecting each according to its nature and activity. For Heraclitus logos is common or universal, uniting human law and natural law or, perhaps more accurately, never separating them. Plato's Republic, trans.