Right. You really have to have a wise passiveness that moment to really think that every piece of art have that kind of duty behind it.

的确，一个人必须要有这种聪悟的被动,才能在那一瞬间理解到每一个艺术作品,背后都有这个的意义。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.

在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹，尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

What they have to do in order to feed the population, you have to have more land.

要怎么做才能养活这么多的人呢,你得有更多的土地

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If souls can't split,it can only follow one half of the brain, and that's why we'll get somebody that's got one half, sometimes the other half,but never both halves.

如果灵魂不能分割，只跟随一半大脑，才能有只有其中一个得到半个大脑的人存活，而没有两人同时存活的状况。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

What turns out to be the practical fact is that he who has the power and the will to do what he wants will be able to do so, and he who has not will be forced to suffer whatever the powerful impose on him.

事实上只有有能力及意愿,去做某事的人,才能最终做成某事,而没有能力或意愿的人则会因之,而遭受不幸

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

one important argument was,or really family of arguments was, you need to believe in souls in order to explain why bodies are animated, why people are rational,how they can have personalities, how they can be creative,and so forth.

一个或一系列很重要的说法就是，要相信灵魂的存在才能解释身体的活动，为什么人会有理性和人格，为什么有创造力，诸如此类。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选