Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Source: Nuestra America y Otros Escritos
Context: We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 165
“Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra”
Source: One Silent Night
“I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.”
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
“If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”
“Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.”
The first sentence of this was used by William Torrey Harris for the motto of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Novalis (1829)
Context: Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
“A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
Source: The Panther and the Lash
