Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Interpretation
Ethical truths are discovered through experience, similar to scientific truths.
This quote by Albert Einstein suggests that the foundation of ethics, much like scientific principles, is established through empirical evidence and real-world experiences. It indicates that truths in ethics are not merely abstract ideas, but are validated by their applicability and the outcomes they produce in life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a debate about moral philosophy to emphasize the importance of practical experience in ethical discussions.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
Power should be a check on power.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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