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
Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894). Smith was a Quaker, thus the archaic use of "Thee" in this and other letters to her.
1890s
Letter to C. P. Sanger, 23 December, 1929
1920s
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 15: Power and moral codes
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 7: The Case for Socialism
Zdroj: 1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 133
BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)
1940s
'Vagueness' http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/vagueness.htm, first published in The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 1 June, 1923
1920s
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments
"The Moral Arguments for Deity"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
“To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.”
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 18: The Taming of Power
Zdroj: 1950s, My Philosophical Development (1959), pp. 93-93
“Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.”
Letter to Gilbert Murray, December 28, 1902
1900s
Part I, Ch. 3: Lenin, Trotsky and Gorky
1920s, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 10: Recrudescence of Puritanism
Letter to W. W. Norton, 17 February, 1931
1930s
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 9: Power over opinion
1950s, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912, as quoted in Clark The life of Bertrand Russell (1976), p. 174
1910s
“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness
“[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.”
Letter to Colette O'Niel, October 23, 1916; published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970, p. 87
1910s
Letter to Walter Ulbricht, January 7, 1964. Russell would later write, in his autobiography: "The abduction and imprisonment by the East Germans of Brandt, who had survived Hitler's concentration camps, seemed to me so inhuman that I was obliged to return to the East German Government the Carl von Ossietzky medal which it had awarded me. I was impressed by the speed with which Brandt was soon released".
1960s
Zdroj: 1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
The argument is really no better than that.
"The First-cause Argument"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
"16 Questions on the Assassination" http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/The_critics/Russell/Sixteen_questions_Russell.html in The Minority of One, ed. M.S. Arnoni (1964-09-06), pp. 6-8
1960s
Enclosed reply to the Ministry of Labour, in defense of A. S. Neill (who declined to send it), 27 January, 1931
1930s
An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s
1920s, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
"If We are to Survive this Dark Time", The New York Times Magazine (3 September 1950)
1950s