Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.
What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.
No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
