Translation of "Ernüchternde erkenntnis" in English

There follows the sobering recognition that no person is able to make himself holy.

This realization, sobering as it was in terms of educational policy, was one of the reasons fifteen years ago for founding the Goldrausch project in Berlin.

I’ll never get any better—this was the sobering realization that came over Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao during his internship at the Magnum photo agency.

Both Arnulf Zöller of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Werner Stuflesser, President of the European Academy in Bozen, talked about the sobering realisation that cooperatives almost did not figure in any curriculum employed in public education at all, apart from very few exceptions.

This is an astonishing phenomenon especially since the sobering realization, that art is "unteachable", has become a common set phrase in introductory lectures.

I'll never get any better—this was the sobering realization that came over Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao during his internship at the Magnum photo agency.

The immanent criticism of the sloppy NEP director of the gas works in the play, who had repeatedly postponed obtaining gas masks, corresponds to Eisenstein and Tretyakov's actual flight from the theater. The reason for their exodus from the theater was not only the glorious Proletkult idea of "culture for all", but also the simple and sober insight that its audience was increasingly interspersed with the Nouveau Riche of the NEP.

On the basis of Kurt Gödel’s sobering insight into the incompleteness of mathematics, researchers are working at the limits of logic seeking new axioms that could contribute to solving at least all meaningful mathematical questions – and they are doing this work at the University of Vienna.

So impressive is the diversity of the information provided, so sobering is the realization that the greatest evil are those who act quite selfish as market leaders and industry innovators — loving themselves and ignore the reality influenced by a bad behavior!