Self knowledge is like lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be un-thought or un-known.

自我认知就像逝去的童真，不管你有多不安;,你已经无法不去想或是充耳不闻了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

If justice equals self-interest and self-interest requires knowledge, ? well what kind of knowledge is that?

如果正义等于私利,且私利需要知识，则那是一种什么样的知识？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So you don't have the kind of self-knowledge that many of us value.

所以你没有许多人所重视的自我认识。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Justice, like all knowledge, is really a form, again, of self-interest.

正义，一如所有知识，其实是一种私利的形式。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选