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
Quoted in Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic: A Biography, Vol. 2 (1958), p. 233
1950s
The Future of Science (1959), p. 79; also in BBC The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 505
1950s
[Russell, Bertrand, w:Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, https://books.google.com/books?id=iQZ6Xk9VdtAC&pg=PA296, 2008, Simon and Schuster, 978-1-4165-9915-9, 296–297, 1945]
1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
Zdroj: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. V: Government and Law
In London Calling http://books.google.pt/books?id=l80fAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Men+tend+to+have+the+beliefs+that+suit+their+passions.%22&dq=%22Men+tend+to+have+the+beliefs+that+suit+their+passions.%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=q9mEUcj-AoqM7AbW3IGoBQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw (1947), p. 18
1940s
Preface (1957)
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness.
What is an Agnostic? (1953)
1950s
“Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.”
The Analysis of Mind http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2529 (1921), Lecture I: Recent Criticisms of "Consciousness"
1920s
Zdroj: 1920s, Review of The Meaning of Meaning (1926), p. 114
“What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.”
Quoted on Who Said That?, BBC TV (8 August 1958)
1950s
Zdroj: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 9
“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.”
1910s, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 172
1940s
Principia Mathematica, written with Alfred North Whitehead, (1910), vol. I, Introduction, ch. II: The Theory of Logical Types. This is a statement of the Berry paradox.
1910s
On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism (1914)
1910s
“I've got a one-dimensional mind.”
Said to Rupert Crawshay-Williams; Russell Remembered (1970), p. 31
Attributed from posthumous publications
Fact and Fiction (1961), Part II, Ch. 10: "University Education", p. 153
1960s
“Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.”
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 12: Education and Discipline
Television interview ("On clarity and exact thinking" - available on youtube)
1960s
Attributed to Russell in Ken Davis' Fire Up Your Life! (1995), p. 33
Attributed from posthumous publications
"Is There a God?" (1952)
1950s
“I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
Dreams and Facts https://users.drew.edu/jlenz/br-dreams.html (1919)
1910s
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 10: Modern Homogeneity