What is ideal observer?

Famous quotes containing the words ideal and/or observer:

    One who does not know how to discover the pathway to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)