Full Idea
No one has found a valid goal for history; but everyone has proposed one.
Gist of Idea
Despite endless suggestions, no one has found a goal for history
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'The Indirect')
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.27
A Reaction
This seems to be an attack on the Hegelian idea of destiny that suffused both marxism and fascism in the 1930s.