Tao Te Ching

“When in early antiquity Fu Xi ruled the world, he looked upward and contemplated the images in the heavens; he looked downward and contemplated the patterns on earth… He proceeded directly from himself and indirectly from objects. Thus he invented the eight trigrams”

— Confucius 孔丘 551 – 479 BCE via Richard Wilhelm
(Kongzi, Kǒng Zǐ)
History's most influential "failure"
from Ta Chuan: The Great Treatise