Burn - does not mean to refute. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Burn - does not mean to refute

Giordano Filippo Bruno

Phraseologism: Burn - does not mean to refute.

Meaning: You can destroy a person, but not his teaching.

Origin: According to legend, these words were said by the monk Giordano Filippo Bruno (1548-1600), the supporter and popularizer of the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the author of the philosophical treatise "On Infinity, the Universe and the Worlds", having ascended the fire of the Inquisition. In his work, he went even further than Copernicus: he argued that neither the Earth nor the Sun are the only planets in the Universe. According to Giordano Bruno, it has many systems like the Sun, and many planets like the Earth, on which life is also possible. For such a clear contradiction with church doctrine, the thinker was arrested by the Inquisition and spent seven years in prison, where he was required to renounce "heresy". Not having achieved their goal, the Inquisition judged the thinker and burned him at the stake in the Square of Flowers, in Rome. Now there is a monument dedicated to Giordano Bruno on it. These words gained new popularity during the years of the French Revolution. Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794), one of the leaders of the revolution, will pronounce them, obviously remembering the legendary expression of Bruno, in response to the threat of Maximilian Robespierre to burn the circulation of the newspaper Le Vieux Cordelier, on the pages of which Desmoulins spoke out against the Jacobin terror.

Random phraseology:

Not without good souls in the world.

Meaning:

There are still good people, there is someone to ask for help, assistance, etc.

Origin:

From the poem "Schoolboy" (1856) by N. A. Nekrasov (1821-1877). The hero of the poem turns to a poor boy going to school: "Not without good souls in the world - // Someone will take you to Moscow, // You will be at the university - // The dream will come true!"

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