Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
Arthur Peacocke

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Simone de Beauvoir

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Leibniz

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
John C. Hawkes

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
Herbie Hancock

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
Joel Coen