“It is necessary to take into account both the actual goal of life and the whole body of clear and distinct perceptions to which we refer our judgments. If we fail to do this, everything will be in disorder and confusion.

If you reject all sensations, you will not have any point of reference by which to judge even the ones you claim are false. …

If at any time you fail to refer each of your acts to nature’s standard, and turn off instead in some other direction when making a choice to avoid or pursue, your actions will not be consistent with your creed.”

(Leading Doctrines, 22-25)

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Epicurus on the importance of sense perception