I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.... The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth.
From "What I Believe", in Forum and Century 84(1930),
pp. 193-194; reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, pp. 8 -11
The Quotable Einstein, compiled by Alice Calaprice
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