Quotes About Innateness

When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Now, if concepts are undefinable, that means they aren't built out of more elementary concepts, which means they must themselves be elementary concepts, which means they must be innate.

No one can be cured of being who they are.