It has been commented that apparently he preferred to live in the past. When listening music, his choice, was Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Verdi. He collected ancient coins and Renaissance postmarks. He didn't like to see television neither went to movies; instead he was inclined to examine the slides of pictures that he used to take of classical architecture. He considered worthless to go to parties and didn't learn chess, as he thought it was mentally distracting. Most of his time and also his spare time he was reading, making notes, and writing.

His life was the life of an intellectual adventurer exploring first in the mystery of the living world, and searching later how to contribute to the reconciliation of science and humanities, materialism and idealism, body and mind.

Along the years he always managed to assemble a diversity of singular and inspired reference points, which allowed him to draw analogies that other thinkers could never identify, simply because their expertise was limited to one or two fields.