Satisfaction of Needs Quotes

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.