There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. The Naked and the Dead (1948)
I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits." Barbary Shore (1951)