The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that creating a sentence allows for limitless expression and exploration of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the power of language and the boundless possibilities that arise when one constructs a sentence. It implies that each sentence can open up new realms of thought and creativity, launching the speaker or writer into an infinite landscape of ideas, interpretations, and connections. The act of forming a sentence is not just a matter of communication; it is a profound engagement with the act of creation itself, embodying the idea that language can shape our understanding of the world.
In practice
In a public speech about the importance of literature, one could use this quote to illustrate how storytelling transcends boundaries.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed itβHis Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
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