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"The Relevance of Oriental Philosophy" (c. 1964) - Watts, Alan | WIST Quotations
You see, a philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. Collected in Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life, ch. 6 (2006). Variant: "A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things, like existence, that ordinary people take for granted."