I do not believe it to be healthy-minded to nurse the notion that ideals are self-sufficient and require no actualization to make us content.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
It concludes with the following observation: "The world as yet but slightingly appreciates the domestic and humane virtues of this recluse people; and we feel that in a record of attempts for the actualization of a better life, their designs and economies should not be omitted, especially as, during their first half century, they have had remarkable success."
"History of American Socialisms"
John Humphrey Noyes
Only in so far as the first stage of suggestion and imitation is carried over to the next stage of personal actualization, can we say that there is any real promotion of spiritual life: any hope that this life will work a true renovation of the group into which it has been inserted and achieve the social phase.
"The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day"
Evelyn Underhill