Albert Einstein Ethical Quotations

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.