Bertrand Russell nejznámější citáty
Bertrand Russell: Citáty o životě
„Většina lidí raději umře, než aby myslela. A přinejmenším jednou v životě to i udělají.“
Varianta: Většina lidí raději umírá než myslí. A přinejmenším jednou v životě to učiní.
Bertrand Russell: Citáty o lidech

„Smutné je, že hlupáci jsou tak sebejistí, zatímco moudří lidé jsou vždy plní pochybností.“
Zdroj: Bertrand Russell. Citaty.net [online]. [cit. 2012-06-04]. Dostupné online. http://citaty.net/autori/bertrand-russell/
Bertrand Russell citáty a výroky
„Jsou-li všichni odborníci zajedno, je na místě opatrnost.“
Varianta: Jsou-li všichni odborníci za jedno, je na místě opatrnost.
„Dobrý život je inspirován láskou a řízený vědomostmi.“
Zdroj: UDWIG, Petr. Konec prokrastinace. V Brně: Jan Melvil, 2013. (Briquet).
http://ndk.cz/view/uuid:c1912080-9702-11e4-a808-005056827e52?page=uuid:d7b6c660-9a92-11e4-a2db-005056825209 Dostupné online. ISBN 978-80-87270-51-6. S. 272.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Zdroj: Cit. u Barrow, Pí na nebesích.

Bertrand Russell: Citáty anglicky
“Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.”
Quoted in Look (New York, 23 February 1954).
Cf. Russell (1928), Sceptical Essays, «It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate".»
1950s
"The Idea of Righteousness"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Quoted in Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (1944)
1940s
On History (1904)
1900s
Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)
“I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.”
BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Bertrand Russell v. Frederick Copleston (1948)
1940s
"The Doctrine of Free Will"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
“The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.”
1900s, "The Study of Mathematics" (November 1907)
Part I, Ch. 9: International Policy
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 493
1940s
Zdroj: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 159
Zdroj: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. VI: International relations, p. 97
“How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.”
A characteristic saying of Russell, reported by Aldous Huxley in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell dated 8 October 1917, as quoted in Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (Routledge, 2013)
1910s
"Can a Scientific Community Be Stable?," Lecture, Royal Society of Medicine, London (29 November 1949)
1940s
Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. II: Symbolic Logic, p. 11
1900s
“Whatever we know without inference is mental.”
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 224
1940s
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts
As quoted in World Unity, Vol. IX, 3rd edition (1931), p. 190
1930s
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 6: On the Scientific Method in Philosophy
Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145
1960s
"Skepticism"
1940s, Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/russell8.htm (1947)
Greek Exercises (1888); at the age of fifteen, Russell used to write down his reflections in this book, for fear that his people should find out what he was thinking.
Youth
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Varianta: Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and purification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Zdroj: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 33
The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character
1920s