The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
AristotleFor 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.
AristotleHere and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
AristotleThe proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
AristotleBut nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.
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