“There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.”
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Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem, 15 August 1988 <br class="br">Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_15081988_mulieris-dignitatem_en.html
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Early Writings, translated and ed. by , p. 159. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/3rd.htm <br class="br">Context: Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital or when we directly possess, eat, drink, wear, inhabit it, etc., in short, when we use it. Although private property conceives all these immediate realizations of possession only as means of life; and the life they serve is the life of private property, labor, and capitalization. Therefore all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by the simple estrangement of all these senses – the sense of having. So that it might give birth to its inner wealth, human nature had to be reduced to this absolute poverty.
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Aurea Dicta XX, p. 8.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
“Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.”
John Buchan book The Path of the King
Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", I