The phrase "merely thought" is grammatically correct and is used in written English.
One situation where it can be used is when discussing thoughts or ideas that are not acted upon or put into practice. For example: "She had many great ideas, but unfortunately, they remained merely thoughts on paper and were never brought to life." In this sentence, "merely thoughts" means that the ideas were not put into action and remained only as thoughts.
Beyond their writings, they took to the streets and moved our country from what was merely "THought to be" to a realization of what "Ought to be!" We are the better for those actions.
Furthermore, it has been shown that there is a relationship between reality monitoring errors and disorganized thinking in schizophrenia, with thought disordered schizophrenic patients experiencing problems differentiating information that they had spoken from that which they had merely thought [ 12].
It was merely thought small.
We merely thought we didn't belong.
He had, furthermore, merely thought of exporting the poor.
The second officer merely thought it strange that a ship would be firing rockets at night.
You now have in your head something that is identifiably "language," not merely thoughts that somehow seem unlinguistic.
Accepting one's thoughts as merely thoughts is very different from treasuring one's thoughts; one may as well treasure one's sweat or saliva.
The discussions include the power of being in the present moment and the objective observation of thoughts as merely thoughts, rather than as facts or events.
I wish people knew that, despite impressive research on neuroplasticity and our brain's capability of changing, it is unfair to expect a person to undo depression by merely thinking happy thoughts, that the science is new and while a person can be mindful of forming new neural passageways, he can't change a lamp into an elephant overnight, just as he can't un-think a tumor from happening.
Talk story about Mark Helfrich's book, "Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends"... Mark Helfrich, a forty-seven-year-old professional film editor and amateur photographer who lives in Los Angeles, was thinking merely mercenary thoughts one particular day seven years ago while perusing a box of old black-and-white and color prints — mostly, naked pictures of his ex-girlfriends.
