“Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.”
“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74
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“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002), Ch. 2 : I'm Not an Accident
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
Source: Ends and Means

“Let us turn to the past: that will be progress.”
Tornate all'antico e sarà un progresso.
Letter to Francesco Florimo, January 5, 1871, cited from Francesco Florimo Riccardo Wagner ed i wagneristi (Ancona: A. G. Morelli, 1883) p. 108; translation from Charles Osborne (ed. and trans.) Letters of Giuseppe Verdi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971) p. 169.