“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”

Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 17, “The Ire of the Heavens” (p. 260)

Source: The Spellmans Strike Again

Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899)

As quoted in &quot;The Gentle Philosopher&quot; (2006) by John Little at the Will Durant Foundation https://web.archive.org/web/20130312115951/http://www.willdurant.com/home.html <br class="br">Context: It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it.

Bodhicaryavatara

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

Speech in Winnipeg, Canada (13 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 116-117.
1927
Context: You very often hear and you sometimes read in newspapers not friendly to the British race that there signs of decadence in Great Britain. Don't you believe a word of it. The people at home are the same people who fought shoulder to shoulder with you for four years all over the world. They are the same stock which created the Maritime Provinces and Ontario. They are the same stock that built up this country. The stock is the same as it ever was, and it is as fine as it ever was.

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)