Isn't the reason I think unicorns are logically coherent is because I can imagine them so easily?

我认为,独角兽在逻辑上不矛盾的原因,不正是因为我能够轻易的想象它们吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Maybe you'll now believe Hobbes if you don't believe me. So the state of nature, it's a state of insecurity, it's a state of conflict.

如果你不相信我的话，你也不一定相信霍布斯,所以自然状态,是一种不安全的状态，是一种矛盾的状态。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

To put untrammeled reasons and individual freedom at the center of a civilization is to live with the conflict, the turmoil, the instability, and the uncertainty that these things create.

把自由理性和个人自由置于,文明的中心就会伴随着冲突与矛盾,混乱和不安定,以及一些其他的不良影响

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Again, this is just his personal ambivalence about who he was, and his uncertainty about the role that he had in his own family So, this was a play-acting that was part of his life.

这也表明他对自己的身份的矛盾,以及自己在家庭中的角色的不确定,所以,这种角色扮演成为他生活的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If I asked you what magazines you read, it turns out people who are right wing read right wing magazines, people who are left wing read left wing magazines, because people don't as a rule enjoy getting information that disconfirms what they believe in.

如果我问你们，你们看什么杂志，我会发现右翼的会看右翼的杂志，左翼的会看左翼的杂志，因为一般来说，人不喜欢接收到,与他们信奉的相矛盾的信息。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选