“Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before or after it has been reached: yet both aspects are real.”

— Samuel Butler

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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality

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Samuel Butler 232

novelist 1835–1902

Chester Barnard book The Functions of the Executive

Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p.86

“I really like both going out to do the services, and preparing the news. These are two equally fascinating aspects.”

Roberta Floris (1979) italian journalist, television presenter and former model (1979)

Source: From the interview with de Il Viaggio Magico, Il Viaggio Magico interview with Roberta Floris http://www.viaggiomagico.net/intervista.php?id=48, Viaggio Magico, viaggiomagico.net.

“Man, according to the Theosophical teaching, is a sevenfold being, or, in the usual phrase a septenary constitution. Putting it yet in another way, man's nature has seven aspects, may be studied from seven different points of view, is composed of Seven Principles.”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

The Seven Principles of Man http://books.google.co.in/books?id=tgEM1XiI74kC&printsec=frontcover, p. 6

“There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily.”

Taito Waradi Fijian businessman

15 May 2000
Comments on the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission

“Fiction film is really different from documentary in this aspect. It is less objective, because the director expresses a subjective point of view with the movie. I would like the movie to look like a documentary, look real.”

Zhang Yimou (1950) Chinese actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer

"No one to be Missed" in Off Screen https://offscreen.com/view/zhang_yimou (April 1999)

“Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.”

Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) Italian artist

1919
as quoted in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 440
1908 - 1920, On Mystery and Creation, Paris 1913

“It might pertinently be said that determinism and freedom are of course compatible enough when they are merely viewed as the two reciprocal aspects of self-activity in a single mind, but that the real difficulty is to reconcile the self-determinisms in different free minds.”

George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.326-7