God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived. Anselm of Canterbury
Taoist philosophy ... is essentially monistic. ... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole. Bruce Lee
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. Ulrich Beck
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. Felix Adler
The purpose of Plato, or of Aristotle, as Fārābī conceived of it, is sufficiently revealed in this seemingly conventional praise of philosophy. Leo Strauss
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. Agnes Smedley