Randolph W. Severson

Moralists like to talk about discovery in morality, as though moral life were the work of the mind. Instead they should talk about the moral imagination. It is this imagination that should provide us with the sequence of beautiful images for the dynamic schema we call heroism. As far as ethics is concerned, example is causality . . . . Anyone who tries to raise his life to the same level as his imagination will feel a sense of nobility welling up within him . . . .

Gaston Bachelard