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
Zdroj: 1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Chapter XXXI "The Philosophy of Logical Analysis"
Zdroj: 1950s, My Philosophical Development (1959), p. 261
"On Induction"
1910s, The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), Ch. 2: The Aims of Education, p. 36.No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
1920s
Preface (1957)
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Letter to Gilbert Murray, March 21, 1903
1900s
Zdroj: 1910s, Why Men Fight https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Men_Fight (1917), pp. 48-50
1950s, The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
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
"On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956)
1900s
Religion and Science (1935), Ch. IX: Science of Ethics.
1930s
Varianta: "What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know." (Attributed to Russell in Ted Peters' Cosmos As Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance [1989], p. 14, with a note that it was "told [to] a BBC audience [earlier this century]").
Interview with Irwin Ross, September 1957;If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence. Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (2005), p. 385
1950s
“I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.”
Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind (1960), p. 80
1960s
Our Sexual Ethics http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/oursexethics.html (1936)
1930s
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers
After some fifty or sixty repetitions, this remark ceased to amuse me.
Zdroj: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 9
The New York Herald-Tribune Magazine (6 March 1938)
1930s
Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 3
1900s
Letter to Colette, December 28, 1916
1910s
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power
“A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.”
The Scientific Outlook (1931)
1930s
Zdroj: 1950s, My Philosophical Development (1959), p. 200
Zdroj: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 70
Zdroj: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. VI: International relations, p. 99
An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
This has often been published as a quotation of Russell, when an author is given (e.g. in Quote Unquote – A HandBook of Quotation, 2005, p. 291), but without any sourced citations, and seems to have circulated as an anonymous proverb as early as 1932.
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