One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

... privation is the source of appetite.

Rare is he who will concede genius.