30 Movie Quotes about Philosophy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 12, 2025

Memorable quotes about philosophy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Oh! I never knew Schopenhauer was a philosopher. -Oh, yeah. He's the one that begins with an 'S.' -Oh.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

2 How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the Emperor who gave Rome back her true self?

Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000)

3 I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city. -What? -Themistocles, sir. A Greek philosopher.

Toole as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

4 Do all philosophers have an 'S' in them? -Yeah. I think most of them do.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

5 It's our problem-free philosophy. (2)

Matthew Broderick as Simba in The Lion King (1994)

6 My old man had a philosophy, 'Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.'

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark Iron Man in Iron Man (2008)

7 Archeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

8 But when a picture maker turns philosopher, it's time for him to quit!

Walt Disney as Himself in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)

9 It smokes, it drinks, it philosophizes.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

10 Now what? -I don't know. Philosophize with him.

Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esquire in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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