Robert Musil. The man without qualities (№ 431025)

Maybe not all people believe in the story of the devil to whom you can sell your soul; but all people who, probably, understand something in their souls, since they, being priests, historians and artists, derive good income from this, testify that it has been destroyed by mathematics and that mathematics is the source of some kind of evil mind, although it transforms a person in the ruler of the earth, but making him a slave to the machine.