It helps to be armed with ready ripostes to what the thoughtless will throw at you in the course of life. What do you say in response to "Philosophy bakes no bread"?
1. Philosophy bakes no bread. It bakes bliss instead.
2. Though philosophy bakes no bread, it is the mill that separate the wheat from the chaff of human experience.
3. Man does not live by bread alone.
4. While it is true that philosophy bakes no bread, it is the press that converts the grapes of experience into the wine of wisdom. Better to be drunk with wisdom than stuffed with bread.
5. Philosophy does indeed bake bread, it is just that the bread it bakes is panem supersubstantialis and not panem quotidianis.