Energy wasted on negative ends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo.
“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”
“Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.”
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life and being successful.”
“And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time.”
“Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.”
“The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine transfer of waste from on place to another...”
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”