Meanings of transcend experience in English

As the poet transcends thought for the sake of experience, the philosopher must transcend experience for the sake of thought.

Philosophers may be right in affirming that we cannot transcend experience: we can, at all events, carry it a long way from its origin.

In philosophy again there are two opposite principles, of immediate experience and of those general or a priori truths which are supposed to transcend experience.

It is compelled to transcend experience, and endow the atoms and molecules of which crystals are built with definite poles whence issue attractions and repulsions.

Shall I believe in the possibility or in the impossibility of transcending experience?