Full Idea
Callicles: If people who need nothing are happy, there would be nothing happier than a stone or a corpse.
Gist of Idea
If absence of desire is happiness, then nothing is happier than a stone or a corpse
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 492e)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.80
A Reaction
We aren't really supposed to approve of Callicles, but to me this is a splendidly crushing western response to many of the ideals found in eastern philosophy.