So for Socrates, there's no such thing as acting against one's best judgment: There's only bad judgment. He draws an analogy with optical illusions. Like a child who thinks her thumb is bigger than the moon, we overestimate the value of nearby pleasures and underestimate the severity of their faraway consequences.

The moon is the dream of the sun. (Paul Valry)


The moon is a piece of poetry in the prose of the night. (Jean Paul)


The moon is a silver ship sailing across the sea of the night.


The moon is the poet who decorates the night with silver verses.

    "God put the Moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest."

- Lynne Ewing

Sometimes such passionate love doth in her rise,
     Down from her beaten path she softly slips,
And with her mantle veils the Suns bold eyes,
     Then in the gloaming finds her lovers lips.
While far and near the men our world call wise
     See only that the Sun is in eclipse.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Her Bonnet is the Firmament
The UniverseHer Shoe
The Starsthe Trinkets at Her Belt
Her Dimitiesof Blue
-Emily Dickinson



Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees.





The Early Morning by Hilaire Belloc

The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other:
The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother.
The moon on my left and the dawn on my right.
My brother, good morning: my sister, good night.




Still the restless river rushes,
With its fitful sobs and hushes,
Through the reeds along the shore ;
And the young moon, fair and tender,
Showers forth the same soft splendor.

And Yet by Frances Reed Gibson



    "Half moon, night time sky, seven stars, heavens eyes. Seven songs on seven seas, just to bring all your sweet love home to me."

- Janis Joplin



    "And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night."

- Hafitz




    "So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you. Everything makes music if you really want it to."

- Giles Andreae



    "The moon stays beautiful with its craters. So why then are you afraid of your scars?"

- Zubair Ahsan