Because we can get inspirations from so many places, they come together to make us who we are, and not to be ashamed.

因为我们从各个地方汲取灵感，这些灵感融合在一起，就塑造了我们的人格，我们不应因此感到羞愧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.

某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选