non-personality

Updated: May 2, 2025

This will be best explained by an instance or example. Nor is this all; but in the very act of being conscious of this in my own nature, I know that it is a fact of which all men either are or ought to be conscious; a fact, the ignorance of which constitutes either the non-personality of the ignorant, or the guilt, in which latter case the ignorance is equivalent to knowledge wilfully darkened.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.

This will be best explained by an instance or example. Nor is this all; but in the very act of being conscious of this in my own nature, I know that it is a fact of which all men either are or ought to be conscious; a fact, the ignorance of which constitutes either the non-personality of the ignorant, or the guilt; in which latter case the ignorance is equivalent to knowledge wilfully darkened.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces