Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

- Baruch Spinoza

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

- F. H. Bradley

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

- John Adams

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

- Roy Blount, Jr.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

- Thomas Huxley

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko