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: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 211
Zdroj: 1910s, Why Men Fight https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Men_Fight (1917), pp. 18-19
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A fresh look at empiricism, 1927-42 (G. Allen & Unwin, 1996), p. 217
Attributed from posthumous publications
The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character
1920s
“Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.”
When asked asked if he was willing to die for his beliefs.
The Times book of quotations (2000), p. 84
Disputed
Varianta: "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
1950s, The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 17: Some Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1894); published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884–1914), edited by Nicholas Griffin. It should be noted that in his talk of "the race", he is referring to "the human race". Smith married Russell in December 1894; they divorced in 1921.
1890s
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Zdroj: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness
Letter to Lucy Donnely, April 22, 1906
1900s
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Letter to Ottoline Morrell, January 30, 1916
1910s
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers
Zdroj: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), p. 165
"The Argument from Design"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
Attributed to Russell in M. Kumar Dictionary of Quotations, p. 76, but actually said by Marshal Lannes, according to The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences (1824), p. 664
Misattributed
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
“I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.”
Letter to Constance Malleson (Colette), September 29, 1916
1910s
1950s, What Desires Are Politically Important? (1950)
Varianta: An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.
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.Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.
Letter to Alys Pearsall Smith (1893); published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884–1914), edited by Nicholas Griffin
1890s
Zdroj: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
Letter to Will Durant, 20 June, 1931
1930s
1910s, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)