Other nuances may become clear through a review of the following quotations. To make it is not to deny the mechanical structure of nature, but only to show how this mechanical structure is fruitful morally, how the outlying parts of it are friendly or hostile to me or to you, its local and living products. When that potentiality becomes actual, we have . Natural piety has never attempted to moralise the cosmos, but only to recognise in that non-moral natural order the reservoir of force and the field of action proper for man and his morality.
Religions are the great fairy-tales of the conscience.
This moral reality or spiritual life . . . . When it creates feeling . . . To these removed facts his instincts . . . then adjust themselves automatically . . . . And the same animal life lends to these ideas another quality . The trivial spectrum of logic and aesthetics borrows the deep thunder and colouring of a moral world.