Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that human potential and influence are limitless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that there are no boundaries to what a person can achieve or the impact they can have on the world. It encourages individuals to recognize and embrace their inherent power and influence, implying that to try and set limits on oneβs potential is an exercise in futility. Instead, everyone has the capability to contribute significantly to society and inspire change.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
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?
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
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