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schiller

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1. schiller - Noun

2. Schiller - Proper noun

Meaning

The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a ‘poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Schiller has the material sublime. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Delmore carries such a petty, personally involved, New Yorkish atmosphere around with him it's almost unpleasant for me to see him. He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. Randall Jarrell

Hegel's ... deepest objections to the view of knowledge as method and power, as "controlling knowledge” (Scheler, Tillich) or "the logic of domination” (Marcuse), are moral. He agrees with Schiller that "utility is the great idol of the times.”. Merold Westphal

After 1889 the firm became known for their office buildings, particularly the 1891 Wainwright Building in St. Louis and the Schiller (later Garrick) Building and theater (1890) in Chicago. Source: Internet

A lawyer representing the Yankees, Jonathan Schiller, said the letter’s release should be blocked because the court had held that its contents were irrelevant to the suit when the complaint was originally dismissed. Source: Internet

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