Process and Reality

"Every actual entity in its relationship to other actual entities is in this sense somewhere in the continuum, and arises out of the data provided by this standpoint.  But in another sense it is everywhere throughout the continuum; for its constitution includes the objectifications of the actual world and thereby includes the continuum; also the potential objectifications of itself contribute to the real potentialities whose solidarity the continuum expresses.  Thus the continuum is present in each actual entity, and each actual entity pervades the continuum."

— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality