Conceiving Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.