Written in old age: I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)
Source: Quoted in C.P. Snow, Variety of Men, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, U.K. 1969
