“Never in history — never! – has there been a universal yearning by all of mankind for something that does not exist.”
I have often thought this myself.
Ice cream that makes you lose weight?
“Never in history — never! – has there been a universal yearning by all of mankind for something that does not exist.”
This is a very simplistic way to phrase an ontological proof.
Kurt Gödel has the most complete proof. Kurt is most famous for his incompleteness theorem. Kurt was also a friend of Einstein and they walked together to Princeton every day. Kurt also did some work on Einstein’s relativity theorems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_proof
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” — C.S. Lewis
That’s called Faith.