It wouldn’t surprise me if the hierarchy police labeled Kierkegaard a gamma and Aquinas something else. After all, even Nietzsche was labeled a gamma by Vox Day (in one of his Darkstreams.) A great disappointment.
However, Aquinas, also nicknamed the dumb ox, was known to be very heavily overweight—even Umberto Eco mentions this in one of his essays—as well as being a shy, social autist. He also never talked to women again after his brothers sent a prostitute into his cell whom he chased from the castle by wielding a burning stick towards her.
Kierkegaard, on the other hand, had no trouble talking to women. After all, he asked Regine Olsen to marry him. Due to his religious convictions, he later broke off the engagement. Kierkegaard was also known to be very thin (and hunchbacked), which The Corsair used to make fun of to ridicule him publicly. He had no trouble in general, as he often declared in his journals, to hide his melancholy condition from the public: he was able to talk to anyone, no matter which sex or class the person belonged to.
There are many other examples where the hierarchy shows to be absolutely non-applicable to great men in general, and many other lesser men too.
Gómez Dávila:
Prophets, philosophers, politicians, all fail in the end.
But there is nothing more absurd than to write their history as a chain of defeats.
Every great man is a victory.In order to exploit man in peace, it is most convenient to reduce him first to sociological abstractions.
Systematic reductions to single terms (pleasure and pain, self-interest, economics, sex, etc.) fabricate likenesses of intelligibility that seduce the ignorant.