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title: "6 Perceptual Experience Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“If I wanted to render precisely the perceptual experience, I ought to say that 'one' perceives in me, and not that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/if-i-wanted-to-render-precisely-the-perceptual-experience-i-ought-to/)

[Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/)

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> [I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/i-used-to-build-up-to-sensation-accumulating-tension-until-it/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

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> [Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/perceptual-reality-is-different-for-different-species-in-certain/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [“So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/so-sensation-and-judgment-have-together-lost-their-apparent-clearness/)

[Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/)

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> [The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-ware/the-essence-of-comics-is-fundamentally-the-weird-process-of-reading/)

[Chris Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-ware/)

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> [What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/what-we-experience-as-a-perceptual-experience-is-not-what-is-it-s/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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