“My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.”

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

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Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre… 1888–1975

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