David ben Judah Messer Leon (Venice, c. 1470 – Salonica, c. 1526) was an Italian rabbi, physician and writer, who defended the value of secular disciplines and the Renaissance humanities as an important part of traditional Jewish studies.
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“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When long ago I saw her ride
Under Ben Bulben to the meet,
The beauty of her country-side
With all youth’s lonely wildness stirred,
She seemed to have grown clean and sweet
Like any rock-bred, sea-borne bird....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)