Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left an impressive written legacy behind rife with musings and critiques.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” is the sort of book that makes you wish you had a philosophy professor on speed dial, ready to explain the hard parts.

Hobson identifies “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, published in 1908,” as “the first book in English on the philosopher” (89). But Mencken took his title from Grace Neal Dolson’s Ph.D.