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: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 167
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
Bertrand Russell, attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament he helped found http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, (2008) p. 49–50
Misattributed
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
History as an Art (1954), p. 9
1950s
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnlbMP_vBmgC&pg=PA13
Zdroj: 1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 110
"Fear, the Foundation of Religion"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Zdroj: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 21
1900s, "The Study of Mathematics" (November 1907)
“It seems that sin is geographical.”
From this conclusion, it is only a small step to the further conclusion that the notion of "sin" is illusory, and that the cruelty habitually practised in punishing it is unnecessary.
A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 283
Attributed from posthumous publications
What is a Christian? https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html (1927)
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
1940s, The Bomb and Civilization http://personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/bombCivilization.htm (1945)
"The Emotional Factor"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
"The Moral Problem"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Zdroj: Introduction to 1961 edition of Sceptical Essays (1961)
It is true that this proviso is hardly necessary as regards the multiplication table, but knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic. Suppose I say "democracy is a good thing": I must admit, first, that I am less sure of this than I am that two and two are four, and secondly, that "democracy" is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: "I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions," or something of this sort. And one of the aims of education ought to be to make such a statement more effective from a platform than the usual type of political slogan.
1940s, Philosophy for Laymen (1946)