By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.


Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood (ed. Touchstone Books, 1995) - ISBN: 9780684800622

Louise J. Kaplan Quotes

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we...

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we...

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we...

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we...