Alexei Fedorovich Losev. The daring of the spirit (№ 267239)

The feeling of homeland and kinship has nothing to do with rational knowledge. But the love of the mother is not also blindness. To love is to criticize, that is, to find in your favorite positive and negative. To love is to rejoice in the fact that in your favorite positive, good, and to suffer from its shortcomings. This means to encourage in your favorite good start and to deal with the imperfect in it. It means to live a common life.