The soul, in its essence, is rational.

从本质上说,灵魂是理性的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I think film mostly through the entertaining value and I know there is more to its essence I've never taking film class, so I hope the films might be interesting for us to discuss some philosophical concepts Never thought about like that.

我主要看到的是电影的娱乐价值,我也知道电影还有很多其他价值,我从没上过电影课,我希望这门课会很有趣,可以讨论一些哲学概念,我从没思考过这类问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

To write about your life and to pretend that you're communicating the memory of what happened to you--your grief, your private grief-- doesn't contain that universalizing move that fiction, by its very essence, contains.

把你的生活呈现出来,假装成在描述发生在你身上的事，你的不幸，你个人的不幸-,不包括小说根本性的一般化处理，你看，你可以回忆我们在《尤利西斯》的广告。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And so he concluded, "I knew that I was a substance, the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence, there is no need of any place nor does it depend on any material thing.

因此,他总结到,"我知道我是个实体,是思考主体的本质或本性,而这种思考主体的存在,无需任何空间,也不依赖于任何有形实体

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选