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 Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1902
1900s
“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, as quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012), p. 1318
1910s
Zdroj: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 16: Descriptions
1950s, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 20: The Happy Man, p. 201
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society.
“I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.”
Unarmed Victory (1963), p. 14
1960s
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda
On the recipe for longevity; Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 29 (2012)
1950s
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 6: Machines and the Emotions
Introduction, p. 10.
1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)
“In art [the Chinese] aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.”
The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XI: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
1920s
Zdroj: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 198
Zdroj: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 7: Rational, Real and Complex Numbers
"The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics" (1907), in Essays in Analysis (1973), pp. 273–274
1900s
Letter to Gilbert Murray, April 3, 1902
1900s
“Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.”
Letter to Lucy Donnely, November 25, 1902
1900s
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, books.google.com https://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&pg=PA127&dq=bertrand+russell,+%22diligent+search%22, archive.org https://archive.org/stream/freethoughtoffic00russuoft/freethoughtoffic00russuoft_djvu.txt
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Letter to W. W. Norton, 17 February, 1931
1930s
“I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.”
In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature. Quoted in LIFE, Editorials: "A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age", 26 May 1952
1950s
Zdroj: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 16: Descriptions
Letter to Lord Gladwyn, November 14, 1964.There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
1960s
Fact and Fiction (1961), Part I, Ch. 6: "The Pursuit of Truth", p. 37
1960s