Arthur Schopenhauer. Two main problems of ethics (№ 415891)

Of course, no more valid basis for morality can be imagined than theological; for who would dare to be so audacious as to go against the will of the Almighty and Omniscient? Of course, no one - if only this will was announced in a completely reliable, inaccessible to any doubt, so to speak, in an official way. But this condition is of such a nature that it cannot be fulfilled.