She creates needs because she loves action. Wondrous! that she produces all this action so easily. Every need is a benefit, swiftly satisfied, swiftly renewed. Every fresh want is a new source of pleasure, but she soon reaches an equilibrium.

Translated by Thomas Huxley, Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe, Nature, Volume 1, Thursday, November 4, 1869 (p. 10)