If ever there was a time and place for thinking about the facts of death and how it should influence our life, it's right now, in a class on death.

如果有时间和地点去考虑,那些死亡的事实和它如何影响我们的生活，那就是现在，在有关死亡的课上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选