Dostoevsky and Aristotle on life.

Dostoevsky’s ridiculous man tells us that,‘“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness”—that is what must be fought!’

It appears that Aristotle has similar sentiments:

“…but still, in the case of virtue, the most valuable thing is not to have knowledge of it, but to know from what sources it arises. For what we wish is to be courageous, not to know what courage is; to be just, not to know what justice is; in the same way as we wish to be healthy rather than to know what being healthy is, and to be in a good state, rather than to know what it is to be in a good state.”  (Eudemian Ethics I, 9)

A question I have for the ridiculous man: Though you deny that the consciousness of life is higher than life, do you also deny that the consciousness of life is required for life?