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1187 German Quotes

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Terror Useless Cruelties Perpetrated
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Sense Communists Summed Single-sentence
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Everything Justify Existence Judgement
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In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

Political Class Organisationa Trade
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Laws State Aimed Crime
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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

History Class Struggle Dominated
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Freedom Recognition Necessity
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It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.

Strong Wins
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There's only one possibility: win, draw or loose.

Wins Draws Possibility
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Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances
Possession Nothing Opponent Chances
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As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high.

Someone Team Sport Feel
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We should not compare humans to God, but Messi is a godly player.

Compare Humans Godly Player
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Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

Penalty Always Uncertain Affair
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Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

Players Everything Watch Skillful
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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Appears Due Earth Moreover
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Know Knowledge True True Knowledge
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Am Disregard I Am May
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematicians Mathematics Written
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Accept Another Anything Astronomy
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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Aware Because Endeavour Extent
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Center Finally Himself Place
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Advisor Allowed Friends Had
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Made May Now Obscure
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Astronomer Careful Celestial Compose
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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Began Consider Earth Having
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Also Although Arts Away
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First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

First First Of All Must Note
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The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Also Center Direction Earth
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For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Amount Any Climbs Daily
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

Deeper Earth Everywhere Fills
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Arc Circle Earth Fact
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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Appropriate Bodies Circle Circular
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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Bulk Comparison Does Earth
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Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Anyone Believes Earth He
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We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

Between Certainty Earth Poles
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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
All Things Fixed Heaven Highest
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Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Center Near Sun Universe
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At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

Everything However Middle Rest
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In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Bear Earth Important Many
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Hang Hero How Knows
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Artist Belongs His Work
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Heals Inflicted Poetry Reason
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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Age Children Golden GoldenAge
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Artist Interpret Life Meaning
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A character is a completely fashioned will.

Character Will
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Christianity Democracy Fact Highest
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Doing Enjoyment Height Learning
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

AsFarAs Family FamilyLife Far
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Dream Dreaming Near Waking
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