“[Man] is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”

God Knows (1984)

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (pp. 3-4)
Context: It was like no hell or heaven of which he had ever heard or read, and he had thought that he was acquainted with every theory of the afterlife.
He had died. Now he was alive. He had scoffed all his life at a life-after-death. For once, he could not deny that he had been wrong. But there was no one present to say, "I told you so, you damned infidel!"
Of all the millions, he alone was awake.

Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part III: Conclusion

Gone with a handsomer Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Interview with "El País", 2009.

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications