EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)
Autograph aphorism signed ('A. Einstein'), n.p., 1949.
In German, on a slip of paper, 68 x 125mm, laid onto board.
'Die Fahn' ist ein Symbol dafür
Dass noch der Mensch ein Herdentier'.
The flag is a symbol of the fact that Man is still a herd animal.
One of Einstein's best-known anti-nationalist aphorisms. Einstein's opposition to nationalism pre-dates even the Nazi regime in Germany – as early as 1929 he had described nationalism as 'an infantile disease, the measles of mankind' (interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929).
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Exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum, 3 March 1979 - 8 April 1980, to mark the centenary of Einstein's birth (Einstein: A Centenary Exhibition, item 87).
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)
Autograph aphorism signed ('A. Einstein'), n.p., 1949.
In German, on a slip of paper, 68 x 125mm, laid onto board.
'Die Fahn' ist ein Symbol dafür
Dass noch der Mensch ein Herdentier'.
The flag is a symbol of the fact that Man is still a herd animal.
One of Einstein's best-known anti-nationalist aphorisms. Einstein's opposition to nationalism pre-dates even the Nazi regime in Germany – as early as 1929 he had described nationalism as 'an infantile disease, the measles of mankind' (interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929).
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Exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum, 3 March 1979 - 8 April 1980, to mark the centenary of Einstein's birth (Einstein: A Centenary Exhibition, item 87).
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