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: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
"The Doctrine of Free Will"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
Authority and the Individual (1949)
1940s
Unexpectedly, this turned out to be true.
1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
“The above proposition is occasionally useful.”
Comment after the proof that 1+1=2, completed in Principia Mathematica, Volume II, 1st edition (1912), page 86 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=umhistmath&cc=umhistmath&idno=aat3201.0002.001&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=126
1910s
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism
Zdroj: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 16: Descriptions
Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
1930s, Mortals and Others (1931-35)
1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Attributed to Reverend Theodore Hesburgh in Sol Gordon Let's Make Sex a Household Word: A Guide for Parents and Children (John Day Company, 1975), p. 79
Misattributed
Zdroj: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. IV: Work and Pay, discussing Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Zdroj: 1950s, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 220
1900s, "The Study of Mathematics" (November 1907)
Zdroj: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 12: Education and Discipline
1920s, Review of The Meaning of Meaning (1926)
As quoted in Williams' Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics (2001), p. 498
Attributed from posthumous publications
This illustrates the unsatisfactory character of the First-Cause argument.
"Is There a God?" (1952)
1950s
Zdroj: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 8
Preface to The Bertrand Russell Dictionary of Mind, Matter and Morals (1952) edited by Lester E. Denonn
1950s
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 17: Fear, p. 175
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda http://books.google.com/books?id=9tQsg5ITfHsC&q=%22The+State+is+a+collection+of+officials+different+for+different+purposes+drawing+comfortable+incomes+so+long+as+the+status+quo+is+preserved+The+only+alteration+they+are+likely+to+desire+in+the+status+quo+is+an+increase+of+bureaucracy+and+the+power+of+bureaucrats%22&pg=PA134#v=onepage