I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

About This Quote

This quote shows the humor of the man who wrote it, John Locke. It is true that Locke did not have enough time to make this letter shorter. However, he used the word “longer” because he knew that time had not stopped. He used it as a way to show that just because time had stopped for him, it did not mean time had stopped for everything else.

Source: The Provincial Letters

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1. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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2. I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

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3. I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

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