“Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.”

“Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.”

“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable.”

“Man is neither an angel nor a demon. Man is what his lover loves.”

“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”

“....man's place in the universe is somewhere between the beasts and the angels, but, because of the divine image planted in him, there are no limits to what man can accomplish....”