Famous quotes containing the word conceive:
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
—René Descartes (1596–1650)
“The youngest of four sons, but not the youngest of the family!—you conceive the sort of negligence that creeps over even the kindest maternities, in such case ...”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head.... But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)