diff --git a/chanfig/parser.py b/chanfig/parser.py
index 33db9037..28067636 100644
--- a/chanfig/parser.py
+++ b/chanfig/parser.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 from warnings import warn
 
 from .nested_dict import NestedDict
-from .utils import Null
+from .utils import Null, parse_bool
 from .variable import Variable
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ def parse_args(  # type: ignore
         if not isinstance(parsed, NestedDict):
             parsed = NestedDict({key: value for key, value in parsed.items() if value is not Null})  # type: ignore
         for key, value in parsed.all_items():
-            with suppress(TypeError, ValueError, SyntaxError):
-                value = literal_eval(value)
-            parsed[key] = value
+            if isinstance(value, str):
+                with suppress(TypeError, ValueError, SyntaxError):
+                    value = literal_eval(value)
+                parsed[key] = value
         return parsed  # type: ignore
 
     def parse(  # pylint: disable=R0912
@@ -268,6 +269,8 @@ def add_config_arguments(self, config):
                 help = value._help if isinstance(value, Variable) else None  # pylint: disable=W0212,W0622
                 if isinstance(value, (list, tuple, dict, set)):
                     self.add_argument(name, type=dtype, nargs="+", help=help, dest=key)
+                elif isinstance(value, bool):
+                    self.add_argument(name, type=parse_bool, help=help, dest=key)
                 else:
                     self.add_argument(name, type=dtype, help=help, dest=key)
 
diff --git a/chanfig/utils.py b/chanfig/utils.py
index 6127d93f..78533001 100644
--- a/chanfig/utils.py
+++ b/chanfig/utils.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import sys
+from argparse import ArgumentTypeError
 from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping, Sequence
 from functools import partial
 from io import IOBase
@@ -333,3 +334,13 @@ def dfs(node, visited, path):
             return result
 
     return None
+
+
+def parse_bool(value):
+    if isinstance(value, bool):
+        return value
+    if value.lower() in ("yes", "true", "t", "y", "1"):
+        return True
+    if value.lower() in ("no", "false", "f", "n", "0"):
+        return False
+    raise ArgumentTypeError("Boolean value expected.")