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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

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”

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Aristotle

Happiness, Self, Perfect

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

Aristotle

Happiness, Men, Perfect

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Aristotle

Happiness, Granted, Intellect

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

Aristotle

Happiness, Lying, Order

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Aristotle

Happiness, Virtue, Best Things

Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.440, Hackett Publishing

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

Happiness, Action

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

Aristotle

Happiness, Mean, Finals

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Aristotle

Happiness, Exercise, Soul

Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Aristotle

Happiness, Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

Aristotle

Happiness, Blessed, Men

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1737, Princeton University Press