Nick_A wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:29 am
-1- wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:25 am
Nick_A wrote: ↑Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:19 pm
“We must create a cosmic man, a man ruled by his conscience.” Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 133.)
Nick_A:
(1) is your quote attributed to Albert Einstein (AE) an actual quote AE had uttered,
or
(2)is it a quote attributed to AE in a fictional work where the fictionalized character of AE uttered it, and only in the fiction book by William Hermanns?
Please respond meaningfully.
I know enough about Einstein's views on conscience quoted in the following link to know that the quotes in Hermann's book pertaining to conscience are accurate. I also know enough about human nature to know why they must be hated by a sizable minority.
http://www.williamhermanns.com/Cosmicman.html
Here is the link to the book itself and the blurb introducing it
https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Poet-Se ... 0828318735
Professor Hermanns interviewed Einstein in Germany before World War II, and in America after the War. They explored the nature of the cosmic man, but often discussed the horrors of the Holocaust and the implications of the atomic bomb. These verbatim conversations are published for the first time herewith. Einstein and Professor Hermanns knew too well Hitler’s visionary goal which was to make men automatons and strict followers of Nazism. Unwilling to succumb to Nazism as well as fulfilling his desire to survive rather than becoming himself a victim of the Holocaust, Einstein fled to America, where he explored the nature of man and man’s potential to achieve new heights as human beings. In his candid revelations, Einstein transcends physics and enters into a new sphere of humanism—one of a single humanity based on dignity. The theme throughout the four conversations surrounds the issue against a recurrent Anti-Semitism, especially that conducted by the Nazi.
You may call it fantasy but perhaps if you were in the middle of the Holocaust their concerns my be more meaningful. Many are content to become automatons while some wish to become human. Human nature.
Thanks for the lengthy reply and lecture. However, I am a bit disappointed, as you did not actually answer my question.
You said the quote is "precise". That is undoubted; but the ORIGIN of the quote is what I wish to find out from you.
Is the origin (as quoted, perhaps in German original) from:
XXY: - Albert Einstein's mouth personally or else
ZZB: - the mouth of Hermanns' fictionalized figure of Albert Einstein
Please respond by stating either XXY or ZZB, but not both. XXY and ZZB are codes, which stand for their corresponding statement, immediately following them.
I need from you no more and no less, than XXY or ZZB, please. If you would be so kind.