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“Most philosophical problems are to be solved by getting rid of them, by coming to the point where you see that such questions as ‘Why this universe?’ are a kind of intellectual neurosis, a misuse of words in that the question sounds sensible but is actually as meaningless as asking ‘Where is this universe?’ when the only things that are anywhere must be somewhere inside the universe. The task of philosophy is to cure people of such nonsense.”
— Alan Watts, The Book
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