Full Idea
Contemplation (with enough self-sufficiency, leisure and energy) is the perfect happiness for man.
Gist of Idea
Contemplation (with the means to achieve it) is the perfect happiness for man
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1177b17)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.330
A Reaction
I assume this is successful and elevating contemplation, rather than sinking into depression as one contemplates human folly and wickedness. Stick to anodyne contemplations?