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“The third kind of life is the life of contemplation”

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I), Bk. 1, Chapter III

“Now the mass of mankind are plainly... choosing a life like that of brute animals...”

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I), Bk. 1, Chapter III

“There are three lines of life which stand out prominently to view: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the life of reflection.”

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“Perhaps then we must begin with such facts as are known to us from individual experience. It is necessary therefore that the person who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nobleness and justice and politics generally, should have received a good moral training.”

Bk I, Ch II
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“And surely to know what this good is, is of great importance for the conduct of life, for in that case we shall be like archers shooting at a definite mark, and shall be more likely to do what is right. But, if this is the case, we must try to comprehend, in outline at least, what it is and to which of the sciences it belongs.”

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“If, then, in the sphere of action there is some one end which we desire for its own sake, and for the sake of which we desire every thing else; and if we do not choose every thing for the sake of something else, for this would go on without limit, and our desire would be idle and futile, it is clear that this must be the supreme good, and the best thing of all.”

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“But it is clear there is a difference in the ends proposed: for in some cases they are activities, and in others results beyond the mere activities, and where there are certain ends beyond and beside the actions, the results are naturally superior to the activities. Now, as there are numerous kinds of actions and numerous arts and sciences, it follows that the ends are also various. Thus the end of the healing art is health, of ship-building ships, of strategy victory, of economy wealth.”

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“Every art, and every system, and in like manner every action and purpose aims, it is thought, at some good; for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the good is, ‘that at which all things aim.’”

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

“If every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, ‘of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods’; if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.”

Aristotle book Politics

Book I, part 4 (1920 translation by Benjamin Jowett)
Popularly simplified to when the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
Politics

“Now men seem, not unreasonably, to form their notions of the supreme good and of happiness from the lives of men.”

The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)