Error (n.) made us human: without false moral assumptions, Nietzsche holds, man would have stayed a beast, since the beast in us wants to be lied to.
Error (n.) and truth may differ only in degree: why not grant brighter and darker shadows of illusion instead of an essential opposition?
Error (n.) is not removed by being recognized: life is the condition of knowledge, error the condition of life, and so we must love error as the womb of knowledge.
Error (n.) is cowardice: we come near the truth exactly as far as our courage carries us forward.
Error (n.) begins with the organic world: in inorganic nature communication seems perfect, and what first gave rise to life was the greatest conceivable error.
Error (n.) can be magnificent and fruitful: just as light exists for us only because of darkness, we find truth only by fighting the error that corresponds to it.