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He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses. ... If philosophy contradicts herself, befools her votaries, and deprives them of every object worthy to be pursued or enjoyed, let her be sent back to the infernal regions from which she must have had her original.
Ernst Haeckel, The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy (Die Lebenswunder) (1904).
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As I have raised the question of the limits of truth and fiction, I may take the opportunity of pointing out the general importance of this distinction. Undoubtedly man's knowledge is limited, from the very nature of our faculties or the organization of our brain and sense-organs.