“The human being is this Night, this empty nothing which contains everything in its simplicity – a wealth of infinitely many representations, images, none of which occur to it directly, and none of which are not present. The image is unconscious, i.e., it is not displayed as an object for representation… Here a bloody head suddenly shoots up and there another white shape, only to disappear as suddenly. We see this Night when we look a human being in the eye, looking into a Night which turns terrifying. For from her eyes the night of the world hangs out toward us.”

from Hegel, ‘The Philosophy of Spirit’