Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert EinsteinThere is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
Albert EinsteinThe distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein