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The Concept of God
The Supreme Irony,
viz,
That what cannot be,
is.
Note:
Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites—of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity, of its own imperfection and its own perfection. All the ‘opposites’ are elements in the nature of things, and are incorrigibly there. The concept of ‘God’ is the way in which we understand this incredible fact—that what cannot be, yet is. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 21.