Albert Einstein Quotes on Happiness
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist whose work revolutionized the scientific understanding of space, time, energy, and matter. This page collects quotes attributed to Albert Einstein on the topic of happiness, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Albert Einstein:
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
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“Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir.”
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. | From "Mes Projets d'Avenir", a French essay written at age 18 for a school exam (18 September 1896). The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 1 (1987) Doc. 22. -
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir. -
“A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech .”
1930s | "Science and Dictatorship," in Dictatorship on Its Trial, by Eminent Leaders of Modern Thought (1930) - later as Dictatorship on Trial (1931), Otto Forst de Battaglia (1889-1965), ed., Huntley Paterso