7 sentences with “mattered”

And yet, for a few hours, none of that mattered to me.

What mattered to the Greeks was public performance of excellence, not private virtue or good intentions.

What mattered to the Greeks was how a man performed publicly, in battle, in athletic contests or in the public forums of debate that sprang up in the growing city-states of archaic Greece.

A person's voluntary attempts to do good things to get to heaven were always inadequate; what mattered was that a believer's sincere faith could inspire an infinite act of mercy on God's part.

Few things have mattered as much as the Industrial Revolution, because it fundamentally transformed almost everything about the way humans live, perhaps most strikingly humanity's relationship with nature.

Instead, what mattered at the time was the diffusion of ideas and knowledge, much of which had no immediate and practical consequences in the form of applied technology, both in ancient Rome and in the Hellenistic kingdoms.

Thus, the god Ahura Mazda was not "all-powerful" in the same way that the Jewish (and later Christian and Muslim) God was believed to be. Human actions mattered in this scheme because everyone played a role, however minor, in helping to create order and justice or impeding progress by enabling evil.