However. Any thinker is heavily inluenced by personal experience. Ill health, unhappy family, body odour...

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No sooner had Leopardi undergone his philosophical, essentially nihilist conversion than his thinking began to revolve around this central paradox: one studied and educated oneself under an imperative to find the truth, yet to live a happy life, which necessarily meant a purposeful active life, one needed to be impelled by illusion, not truth - or certainly not ultimate, philosophical truths.

A more happily socialised thinker might draw more positive conclusions.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}