Money Wisdom #341

"Origin is an eddy in the stream of becoming, and in its current it swallows the material involved in the process of genesis"

Walter Benjamin The Origin of German Tragic Drama trans. John Osbourne (1998 [1928]) p.46 quoted in 

Nigel Dodd Goethe in Palermo: Urphänomen and Analogical Reasoning in Simmel and Benjamin Journal of Classical Sociology 2008; 8; 411