No moral system can rest solely on authority.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.