Is that something that is at work, or is it something that we could only be open to when it's ready?

它是一直存在，还是说,只有在特定时刻我们才能感知到他的力量？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We imagine instead of living 80 years,living 90 or 95 or more We imagine a longer life But what is it that happens when I say ? if only I'd been born earlier?

我们想象不仅活80，90或95岁,我们想象能活更长时间,但如果我想象早点出生,会发生什么情况？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Musical notation is a particularly Western phenomenon and when you stop and think about it only we in the West, and by West what I mean is the United States and Canada and Western Europe and Russia, parts of South America, only we use musical notation and we use it principally for our high art music.

音乐记谱法是西方所特有的,你可以停下好好想想,只有我们这些土生土长的西方人,所谓西方,我指的是美国,加拿大,还有西欧和俄罗斯,包括一部分南美国家,只有我们使用音乐记谱法,并且我们把音乐记谱法应用于高雅音乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选