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Bertrand Arthur Wiliam Russell byl významný britský matematik, filosof, logik a spisovatel, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1950. V matematice je znám svým paradoxem v naivní teorii množin.

✵ 18. květen 1872 – 2. únor 1970   •   Další jména Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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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

Bertrand Russell citát: „Smutné je, že hlupáci jsou tak sebejistí, zatímco moudří lidé jsou vždy plní pochybností.“

„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.

„Ve filosofii jde o to začít s něčím tak jednoduchým, až se zdá, že to nestojí za řeč, a skončit něčím tak paradoxním, že tomu nikdo nechce věřit.“

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 hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.”

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

“Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians

“Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' They may admit that in organic chemistry there is need of long words, and that quantum physics requires formulas that are difficult to translate into ordinary English, but philosophy (they think) is different. It is not the function of philosophy – so they maintain – to teach something that uneducated people do not know; on the contrary, its function is to teach superior persons that they are not as superior as they thought they were, and that those who are really superior can show their skill by making sense of common sense. No one wants to alter the language of common sense, any more than we wish to give up talking of the sun rising and setting. But astronomers find a different language better, and I contend that a different language is better in philosophy. Let us take an example, that of perception. There is here an admixture of philosophical and scientific questions, but this admixture is inevitable in many questions, or, if not inevitable, can only be avoided by confining ourselves to comparatively unimportant aspects of the matter in hand. Here is a series of questions and answers.
Q. When I see a table, will what I see be still there if I shut my eyes?
A. That depends upon the sense in which you use the word 'see.'
Q. What is still there when I shut my eyes?
A. This is an empirical question. Don't bother me with it, but ask the physicists.
Q. What exists when my eyes are open, but not when they are shut?
A. This again is empirical, but in deference to previous philosophers I will answer you: colored surfaces.
Q. May I infer that there are two senses of 'see'? In the first, when I 'see' a table, I 'see' something conjectural about which physics has vague notions that are probably wrong. In the second, I 'see' colored surfaces which cease to exist when I shut my eyes.
A. That is correct if you want to think clearly, but our philosophy makes clear thinking unnecessary. By oscillating between the two meanings, we avoid paradox and shock, which is more than most philosophers do.”

Zdroj: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 159

“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

“Whatever we know without inference is mental.”

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 224
1940s

“Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.”

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

“The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get.”

Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145
1960s

“I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.”

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

“Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, 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.”

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

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