A Half-truth (n.) is false only when it claims to be complete: the symbolist account of desire is accurate as far as it goes.
A Half-truth (n.) needs the rigidity of a dogma and the fanaticism of an inquisitor to survive; for a whole truth a simple statement suffices.
Half-truth (n.) is faith's worst enemy: being content with half of reality.
The Half-truth (n.) is the only kind of truth there is. There are no whole truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
A Lie (noun) (n.) is a debt taken out in someone else's name.
A Lie (noun) (n.) makes you keep two versions of the same evening and remember who got which.
A Lie (noun) (n.) hadn't happened but might just as well have.
A Lie (noun) (n.) is often the truth that got the date wrong.
Prevaricating (n.) is saying that "she has expressive eyes" when a friend asks you if you think his girl is handsome.
Pseudologia phantastica (n.) is the psychiatric name for the "genius" of irresponsible promises, which Jung saw in Hitler: infectious affect plus the promised fulfilment of one's own selfish wishes.
Pseudologia phantastica (n.) is pathological lying, which differs from somnambulistic dissociation only in degree: the liar is carried away by his fantasy like a child lost in a game or an actor in a role, the less conscious the more convincing.
Pseudologia phantastica (n.) is a talent for believing one's own lies — and nothing convinces like a lie its inventor believes, or an evil deed whose righteousness he finds self-evident.