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Cf. Descartes' version of the Ontological Argument. He argues that we could not have made up the notion of perfection ourselves. We never encounter perfection, and it's not simply the negation of things we encounter, so it must have been placed in us. That's a quick and dirty version, btw.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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