Conception, or a concept, is an abstract idea or a mental symbol.
Conception may also refer to:
- Conception, or fertilisation, the fusion of gametes to produce a new organism.
- Conception (album), an album by Miles Davis
- "Conception" (George Shearing song)
- Conception (band), a Norwegian band
- Conception (film), a 2012 movie.
- Conception, Missouri, United States
- Conception: Ore no Kodomo wo Undekure!, a Japanese RPG for the PSP.
Famous quotes containing the word conception:
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“Into all that becomes something inward for men, an image or conception as such, into all that he makes his own, language has penetrated ... logic must certainly be said to be the supernatural element which permeates every relationship of man to nature, his sensation, intuition, desire, need, instinct, and simply by so doing transforms it into something human, even though only formally human, into ideas and purposes.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Every man is in a state of conflict, owing to his attempt to reconcile himself and his relationship with life to his conception of harmony. This conflict makes his soul a battlefield, where the forces that wish this reconciliation fight those that do not and reject the alternative solutions they offer. Works of art are attempts to fight out this conflict in the imaginative world.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)