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).
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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