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It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Nature hates calculators.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

A promise must never be broken.

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‘If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?’