For art is universal enough to contain all the appeals, the sensuous, the intellectual, and, for those who perceive it, the spiritual; but the sensuous is incapable of explanation because sensuousness is a thing of perceptions which vanish as soon as the brain attempts to state them in mental terms; and the spiritual, which I will define much as I would faith as a stimulation produced by a thing which one knows to be Inexistent, also resists analysis; if we are to bridge the gulfs that separate the various forms of art, some intellectual process must be applied.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
The differences between this and that word, between two images, two thoughts, two modes of thinking, of expressing, of behaving, at first become slight, then negligible, then quite Inexistent, and the soul becomes accustomed to the generic, to the empty, to the indifferent.
"The Reform of Education"
Giovanni Gentile