p.37 Consciousness is... the activity whereby a human being recasts an impersonal universe in the form of
the human life world.
p.199 Need arises in the organism only when the latter is already engaged in resolving the tension
that it is experiencing and is living its present disorder only through a projection of the possibility of its being
satisfied.
p.201 we must not say that need is a lack that can be fulfilled merely by providing what is objectively
"lacking" and that the nostalgic insistence of the "lacked"... will have been reduced to nothing by the indubitable
positivity of the object of satisfaction.
p.201 need becomes question, tension, problem... "Everything is revealed in need," writes
Sartre from the first pages. In other words the whole is no longer to be sought elsewhere; it
is no longer draped in the chicanery of sleight of hand; it is no longer quest and obsession. All of dialectical
tension is contained in need.
p.288-289 this does not imply progress as improvement, or even a tendency to progress.
Two further things are necessary for that. First is a notion... a sense of common needs posed as
goals: food, shelter, and the pacification of existence, perhaps; freedom and self-determination, perhaps; the fullest
development of human capacities, perhaps. Second is the sense of a positive practico-inert: practices,
tools, institutions, habits, laws whose purpose is to meet those needs.
p.363 In short: Satisfy people's needs and you will have social peace.
p.364 "self-consciousness is Desire in general..."
p.364 For it is not a matter of the extinction of desire but of its reproduction by choosing in
the world the complement that it lacks and needs to ensure its renewal.
