Posts Tagged ‘subsistence’
Millard Fillmore: Grocer Subsistence
on Saturday, February 9, 2019Millard Fillmore Money Quote saying before the ‘Former Presidents Act’ awarded retired presidents a cabinet level salary (currently $221,400 yearly) was complaining of the need to make a living after serving the highest office. Millard Fillmore said:
“It is a national disgrace that our Presidents, after having occupied the highest position in the country, should be cast adrift, and, perhaps, be compelled to keep a corner grocery for subsistence” — Millard Fillmore
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Deserve to be Rich
on Friday, October 27, 2017Ralph Waldo Emerson Money Quote saying a man cannot express his genius when he is barely able to survive – it cost money to live and we deserve to be rich. Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
“Nor can he do justice to his genius, without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson is saying that a person with true genius or great talent cannot fully utilize or do justice to their abilities if they are only focused on earning a bare minimum living. Emerson suggests that those with genius require more substantial means and resources in order to develop and apply their gifts to their fullest potential.
The quote implies that geniuses have expensive needs and constitutionally demand more from life than basic subsistence, as their work and contributions tend to be on a large scale. Emerson is asserting that in order to properly cultivate and manifest their genius, such individuals really need to be financially well-off or “rich” rather than barely getting by economically.