Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 203
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All... good and useful properties of character have a price in exchange for others which have just as much use. Talent has a market price, since the sovereign or estate-owner can use a talented person in all sorts of ways. Temperament has a fancy price,22 since one can converse well with such a person; he is a pleasant companion. But, character has an inner value[,] and it is above all price.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "All... good and useful properties of character have a price in exchange for others which have just as much use. Talent has a market price, since the sovereign or estate-owner can use a talented person in all sorts of ways. Temperament has a fancy price,22 since one can converse well with such a person; he is a pleasant companion. But, character has an inner value[,] and it is above all price." in the context of "Kant, Immanuel (1996), page 203" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798): Book deriving from lectures he delivered annually between 1772/73 and 1795/96, see Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View and Introduction to Kant's Anthropology (by Michel Foucault))
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