Aristotle Quotes About Contemplation

• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophical, Survival

• Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

  Aristotle

  Inspiration, Character, Emotion

• For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

  Aristotle

  Ethics, Contemplation, Form

• Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

  Aristotle

  People, Ethics, Virtue

• The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Contemplation, Divine

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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