Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838." Nature; Addresses, and Lectures. James Munroe and Company, 1849, p. 115.
The papyrus appears to be an instruction booklet for government officials. The Egyptians did not understand the function of the brain. They believed that rational thought and intellect came from the heart while the belly produced the emotions. As you can see from this precept, politicians and officials were warned about getting too emotional.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
