It is a paradox of the World-Idea that it is at once a rigid pattern and, within that pattern, a latent source of indeterminate possibilities. This seems impossible to human minds, but it would not be the soul of a divine order if it were merely mechanical.

-- Notebooks Category 26: World-Idea > Chapter 1: Divine Order of The Universe > # 112 -- Perspectives > Chapter 26: World-Idea > # 8