"Nothing, at first view, may seem more unbounded than the thought of man, which not only escapes all human power and authority, but is not even restrained within the limits of nature and reality. To form monsters, and join incongruous shapes and appearances, cost the imagination no more trouble than to conceive the most natural and familiar objects." Hume p. 11
This particular quote jumped out at me on the page because it is so true! People have such a wide range of ideas to play with in the mind. If a person is inspired enough he or she can think of anything whether it exists in the world or not. The mind can be an extremely abstract thing. I feel that for the most part the only time that the mind is really unbound, as Hume says, is when an individual is a child. As an adult the mind tends not to wonder with the imagination instead it turns to more practical every day thoughts and the imagination of childhood is lost.
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I think this is very true. Imagination does get lost once we turn into adults. when we are adults, we already have an idea what the world is like, a real or false perception, which we do no really need an imagination anymore.
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