So the question then comes is given that, do you have the courage to examine who you are, do you have the courage to try to cultivate the capacity to love, not just with them in the abstract, but other human beings, not just your family, but what I call "spill-over love".

因此，问题就是，你有没有勇气去审视你到底是谁？,你有没有勇气去培养自己去爱的能力，不仅仅是抽象的爱，不仅仅是爱家人，而是爱其他所有人，这就是我所说的“满溢的爱”

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Is it because some people have a kind of built in sense of thumos, that wonderful Platonic term, pride, courage, love of risk that no society, ? not even a Hobbesian one, can do without?

是因为有一种,内在的激情，是柏拉图的术语，傲骄，勇敢，爱冒险，没有一个社会，甚至霍布斯的社会能没有这些？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选