Thomas Mann comes close to expressing what I'm trying to say to you with his carefully worded sentence about the "frightfully radical duality" between the brain and the beast in man-in all of us.

托马斯。曼字斟句酌地阐述了人类(我们所有人)身上存在的理智与兽性这一“极基本的双重性”时，几乎道出了我的观点。